Still, it is pretty dark now. No matter how late one rises all of those hours before noon are still just morning. Even 9am seems only a little past dawn. Inching along towards noon.
And no matter how you care to parse it 5pm is night. It is dark. But in a couple of days it will start getting better and that feels pretty good this time. The horrible weather was so horrible that it prevented me from fixating on the loss of light.
And now instead I find that I can celebrate the fact that we are now inching towards the light.
The next step is the solstice. The solstice brings all of the various celebrations of the returning of the sun.
Here is our offering to this most recent returning of the sun:
3 comments:
That's a very nice tree. It's also historically accurate -- the timing of the Christian celebration has much to do with the celebration of the solstice. Even in the desert, lambs aren't born in December.
We have nearly an hour and a half more sun time here than at home this time of year. If you account for cloud cover, it's a lot more than that. It makes a HUGE difference. Of course, in two days, that differential begins to shrink until mid March, at which point we go home.
We follow the sun?
We're making up for those exceedingly long days in June. The light shall return.
Merry Christmas to you, too.
Yay, we made it past the solstice and today we have a few more minutes of light (or is it seconds?).
I share in the greeting put forth by GZ. Wireless will be here tomorrow to put up the nativity scene and then our home will be ready for the holiday.
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