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And a happy winter solstice to one and all.
Beautiful morning here - no fog to be seen just the hardest frost of the year.
Lots of beautiful tracks and light through the trees.
I took some pics like this one:
http://img2021.photobox.co.uk/47051947dced52537d78a9bcfad685 9cd98122271d55605c74cd2c2b7fd6 c434ddae9428.jpg
you can see the rest in a public album here (http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2642743)
Have a good day - longer days from now on in!
Flux
CheeseMonster
21-12-2006, 12:20
Very purdy :D
Bright Solstice to you too :D
It's lovely here as well, nippy but dry and bright, and for some reason full of birdsong :cool:
Nice photies!
Cheers,
Toddy
Spikey DaPikey
21-12-2006, 12:38
Solstice Greetings to you all as well :)
Shambling Shaman
21-12-2006, 13:25
Bless Be to all
Looking forward to my Yule dinner :)
heh - according to the BBC the solstice isn't until tomorrow... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6199671.stm
and these people seem to back this up:http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/WinterSolstice.html
And this chart in Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice
:D
Ya solstice is tomorrow as far as I am aware. These things have official dates and astronomical dates I believe so there can be descrepancies. Ancient folk used to count there days from sundown also ( i think ? ). I plan on waking 2moz and heading for dartmoor for sunrise :)
BBoooooooshpig
janiepopps
21-12-2006, 16:20
Cool Yule to you all. :beerchug:
Bring on the mulled wine... :D
j
There are generally three days when the moon can be considered *full* though astronomically it's truly only for a very brief window. Similarly this is Solstice. In our overcast skies :dunno:
Funnily enough I've been getting well wished for it for the past two days and the last celebration I'm going to is tomorrow night......whatever :cool: ........hope it's fun folks :D
Cheers,
Toddy
Winter solstice is today i think. It was the 21st last year i went out on my bike for a ride some really thick fog rather nippy aswel. have a good yule everyone time to think about the year to come over the next 11 nights *and drink lots :)
Josh
The table in the wiki link posted by Womble illustrates that the day varies from 21st to 2nd depending on the year.
Repeat link for sake of ease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice
well its a pea souper this morning so I'm glad I had a good one yesterday. No red face here ( and I'm not a hippy either!).
Yeah, dawn was a dull grey pink here :rolleyes: Took forever to lighten up so I lit some candles to sort of encourage it along :D
I burnt off some of the bog myrtle cones that I'd used for tincture and they smelled wonderful. Definitely something to be mixed with waxed cones/ faggots for a small fire.
I like the seasonal round, I like being *aware* of it. Now I know the dark of the year is going to lift and the days will get longer ( and colder for a bit) there's a fresh energy to things; I might actually wake up and do something :o Like a lot of folks at this time of year I don't get depressed, but I do sort of hibernate :rolleyes:
Cheers,
Toddy
Well I was awake for it, anyone else ?
Check the pics on my forum :
http://www.spiritgarden.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1352&sid=e3175c21ffed3bfe616baf853d 9be942
Boooshpig
gregorach
22-12-2006, 16:54
I like the seasonal round, I like being *aware* of it. Now I know the dark of the year is going to lift and the days will get longer ( and colder for a bit) there's a fresh energy to things; I might actually wake up and do something :o Like a lot of folks at this time of year I don't get depressed, but I do sort of hibernate :rolleyes:
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean there... Although for myself, I always seem to feel Imbolc more of a turning point than the winter solstice.
Still, whatever day you reckon the solstice really is, we've definitely had it now! ;)
Cool yule to all! :)
Shambling Shaman
22-12-2006, 20:58
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean there... Although for myself, I always seem to feel Imbolc more of a turning point than the winter solstice.
Still, whatever day you reckon the solstice really is, we've definitely had it now! ;)
Cool yule to all! :)
Gets my vote - do have my New year on Samhain.