Honoring the shortest day of the year.
Posted on 12/21/2013 9:16:19 AM PST by djf
Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, arrived officially this morning about 5 minutes ago, at 9:11 PST.
The days get longer from here!
Only four days off from my wife and I - Oh the pleasures of those long nights.
Honoring the shortest day of the year.
82 degrees and about to turn on the A/C !!
(Central Florida!)
...oh, where did I leave that HeadPalm gif?
Because of peculiarities of the Earths inclination and orbit, the earliest sunset is not the day of the solstice.
In the northern hemisphere, the earliest sunset actually occurs on or very near December tenth.
Sunrise however, still gets later, until about January first.
Not to worry. Another of God's many loving provisions is our unique moon, which stabilizes the earth.
Don't get lost in the woods, and merry Christmas!
Always keep the lights on at night. Love moonlight. Haven't heard the horned owl yet. They nested nearby last year and would calm the silence after midnight and before dawn.
Maybe some day I will live on the other side of the time zone, for an extra hour of light in the evening. Even better: dusk at 10:00 pm with the soft tintinabulation of a chapel's evensong.
78 here in central Miss. T-storms to arrive late afternoon/evening. Possible tornadoes. I hate this type of weather.
LIKE
Happy 1st anniversary of the end of the world!
67 here in northern VA
Right now, a fire truck from the local volunteer fire department is driving through my neighborhood with a Santa on the back waving to all the kids. The siren is going, and they're blowing the horn.
I hope all the nasty atheists' heads are exploding!
Merry Christmas!
I used to work at Prudhoe Bay which is 70* N. latitude.
The Sun set around Thanksgiving and did not clear the horizon again until around Jan 25th.
The Full Moons of December and January circled in the sky without setting. Now THAT was weird!
Thank God. I hate it getting dark at 5 in the afternoon. Depressing.
I don’t mind 100F so much when the afternoon lasts until around 9:00.
At 56.46.4 North Latitude:
Sunrise today 08:26
Sunset today 15:12
Brumalia
\brü-’mā-lē-ə\ n : a pagan festival held at the winter solstice from which some features of the celebration of Christmas seem to have originated.
The celebration of Brumalia in Byzantium was marked by much dancing and carousing.
A/C is on here. SFL
Dehumidifier too.
Keep the place around 78deg and 40% humidity.
Outside humidity hasn’t gone below 60% yet.
Nights are around low 70s. Fav time of yr.
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