You may recognize this picture as the Sun. NASA certainly did when they took this picture and put it in the public domain, where I promptly borrowed it.
A number of my blogger friends posted today about the winter solstice, which occurs sometime this week, possibly even today, depending upon the high pressure system that is over us at this time. Unless it weakens and allows a cooling trend, we might not see the solstice until later in the week. Or so I'm told.
The winter solstice has long been celebrated as a time of new beginning, the trimuph of light over the darkness. The agrarian peoples looked forward to the longer days and the promise of a bounty come harvest. Even today, many people look forward to the promise of spring that the winter solstice holds. I call those people the 'glass half-full' crowd.
I, on the other hand, am a big fan of the days getting shorter. Every day after the winter solstice marks another step toward June, when the days are fourteen hours long and it stays over 100 degrees Fahrenheit until ten at night.
Of course, if I had made more of myself in life, I would spend the summer celebrating the San Diego solstice, instead of baking in Hooterville.
Happy Winter Solstice, whenever it happens where you live!
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
Dec 21, 2008
You may recognize this picture as the Sun. NASA certainly did when they took this picture and put it in the public domain, where I promptly borrowed it.
A number of my blogger friends posted today about the winter solstice, which occurs sometime this week, possibly even today, depending upon the high pressure system that is over us at this time. Unless it weakens and allows a cooling trend, we might not see the solstice until later in the week. Or so I'm told.
The winter solstice has long been celebrated as a time of new beginning, the trimuph of light over the darkness. The agrarian peoples looked forward to the longer days and the promise of a bounty come harvest. Even today, many people look forward to the promise of spring that the winter solstice holds. I call those people the 'glass half-full' crowd.
I, on the other hand, am a big fan of the days getting shorter. Every day after the winter solstice marks another step toward June, when the days are fourteen hours long and it stays over 100 degrees Fahrenheit until ten at night.
Of course, if I had made more of myself in life, I would spend the summer celebrating the San Diego solstice, instead of baking in Hooterville.
Happy Winter Solstice, whenever it happens where you live!
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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happy holidays to you, too!
I like getting home when it's still light. The corner is turned!
heppy holidays.
Thanks, Merle.
At least next summer you'll be able to hunker down inside, nice and cool because of your new air conditioning.
It's 19 degrees here.
I'm cold. It just gets colder after dark. I don't like 100 degrees, but I'm not so fond of frigid cold either. What's really terrible is when it's sunny in the winter here. Then you just go blind when you go outside. Maybe dark in the winter isn't so bad. At least your eyes work better.
I must say if I lived somewhere where summer brought temps of 100 degrees (or more) I too would be a BIG fan of days getting shorter!
it is currently 12 degrees and snowing - this morning it was 0! but there's some sort of warm up predicted and we may not have a white christmas afterall. wah!
happy holidaze!!
How's the hardware business? I can't imagine a little darkness would deter someone with a hardware mission!
staying inside in winter and summer sounds kinds of wrong somehow.
And a happy winter solstice to you, too. I never realized you're a pagan worshipper.
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