Tag: Winter Solstice
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With Friends At No Kings
This morning dawned with what Jennie aptly named “a winter sunrise”, the sky purple and pink along the horizon. Then came the wind, literally howling as it whipped and battered the trees. Then a period of calm, followed by showers, some of which were torrential, driven by the return of the fierce wind. Now the…
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Dark Days
It’s a bit more than a week before the winter solstice and the slow return of the light. Today is a dark, dreary day in between storms. There is no coyote, nose to the scent, in the field, where there will likely soon be a new house, next to us. Outside my window there are…
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Solstice Kitchen
On this solstice morning we awoke to a deer in the field and a Mordorish sky which slowly gave way to bright sunshine. How appropriate! We are still waiting for winter, or what passes for winter here on the south coast of Massachusetts. Folks here insist this is winter but that assertion is a stretch…
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Solstice
It is clear off towards the lake, and cold. Clouds lie thick over the hill to our south, obscuring the sun for now. When it does appear, it will be the wan sun of the winter solstice.
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