Here tonight, the changing of the seasons. Get out and celebrate like pagans!
The Summer Solstice Is Here
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Enjoy the summer!
ETAV8R
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OP
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I tend to go with older meanings from the origins............................
"The term pagan is from the Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic", or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager." "
from wikipedia
but all this is just talk. Summer is here!
"The term pagan is from the Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic", or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager." "
from wikipedia
but all this is just talk. Summer is here!
Yeah, it's felt kinda summery since 10:04 last night...
OP
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Yup, we put shorts on immediately as the season changed.MarkBC said:
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Happy Birthday to your son!
Edgewood
Senior Member
Summer...umm rained a little over an inch yesterday. Sending well wishes to the people in BC.
Hoping to see the large moon tonight but cloud cover says no.
Hoping to see the large moon tonight but cloud cover says no.
ETAV8R
Senior Member
Happy birthday and summer to all!
I know the basic true meaning of Paganism. All too often I encounter people who are not open minded enough to embrace the seasons and the importance of meanings for belief systems. Also can't help but enjoy the Dragnet movie reference.
I know the basic true meaning of Paganism. All too often I encounter people who are not open minded enough to embrace the seasons and the importance of meanings for belief systems. Also can't help but enjoy the Dragnet movie reference.
It's time for all "pagans" to gather round the Stonehenge and break out the dirnks.
Happy summer to all.
Not through a blanket on the fun,but now the days are getting shorter.
Go out and enjoy.
Frank
ps.Some beverages from out just completed Spain trip.Didn't try the cannibis beer though.
Happy summer to all.
Not through a blanket on the fun,but now the days are getting shorter.
Go out and enjoy.
Frank
ps.Some beverages from out just completed Spain trip.Didn't try the cannibis beer though.
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Lighthawk
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We went to the local Yuba River and jumped in to celebrate the solstice.
Looks like some interesting weather going on right now in eastern Oregon, western Idaho...
...and in eastern Nevada as well...
Of course, it's nothing like the storms they get east of the Far West...but we do the best we can with limited tropical moisture.
...and in eastern Nevada as well...
Of course, it's nothing like the storms they get east of the Far West...but we do the best we can with limited tropical moisture.
using this as the seasonal weather thread...
We've had semi-unusual weather here in Central Oregon the past 24 hours. Thunderstorms...which aren't all that unusual for summer, but they were most-intense overnight, in the wee hours of this morning and continuing to full-daylight hours. Seems like thunderstorms are more of a pm thing, most of the time, when the convection-driving ground heat is hotter...
Waking up to rain/showers in August -- even in the form of thundershowers -- is unusual for the inland far West.
(and the dry lightning, in areas where it didn't shower much, started many small wildfires yesterday...probably overnight, too)
Yesterday afternoon, about 3:30, I woke from a nap to find it quite dark and was a bit confused, at first, in my post-nap drowsiness. Satellite view showed why it was dark in the afternoon:
We've had semi-unusual weather here in Central Oregon the past 24 hours. Thunderstorms...which aren't all that unusual for summer, but they were most-intense overnight, in the wee hours of this morning and continuing to full-daylight hours. Seems like thunderstorms are more of a pm thing, most of the time, when the convection-driving ground heat is hotter...
Waking up to rain/showers in August -- even in the form of thundershowers -- is unusual for the inland far West.
(and the dry lightning, in areas where it didn't shower much, started many small wildfires yesterday...probably overnight, too)
Yesterday afternoon, about 3:30, I woke from a nap to find it quite dark and was a bit confused, at first, in my post-nap drowsiness.
Satellite view showed why it was dark in the afternoon:
craig333
Riley's Human
Been unusally cool here for the beginning of August. Can't say I'm complaining. I'm the hundreds will return yet, they always do.
Should make the motorcycle races tonight very nice.
Should make the motorcycle races tonight very nice.
It's been "dark" in central Oregon all day...
It's not normal here for it to look as dark in summer as a winter day -- all day...somehow foreboding..like something's wrong.
Yeah, I know -- just thunderstorms...and those have started now -- gusty winds, lightning, thunder...a little rain.
It's not normal here for it to look as dark in summer as a winter day -- all day...somehow foreboding..like something's wrong.
Yeah, I know -- just thunderstorms...and those have started now -- gusty winds, lightning, thunder...a little rain.
Mark we were out camping Monday and Tuesday nights in the Ebbetts pass area and had some of that storm I bet.
Lots of great lighting and thunder but no real rain.A nice show though.
Hope all is well.
Frank
Lots of great lighting and thunder but no real rain.A nice show though.
Hope all is well.
Frank
WINTER IS COMING!
This evening, for the first time in many weeks, I closed doors and windows against the outside cold, rather than against the heat. And tonight I considered putting on -- in the house -- something warmer than a t-shirt!
(much of today's cold was from evaporative cooling after thunderstorms...but it wasn't warm before the precip either).
Probably be xc-skiing by next weekend...
This evening, for the first time in many weeks, I closed doors and windows against the outside cold, rather than against the heat. And tonight I considered putting on -- in the house -- something warmer than a t-shirt!
(much of today's cold was from evaporative cooling after thunderstorms...but it wasn't warm before the precip either).
Probably be xc-skiing by next weekend...
OP
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You must have a pair of rock skis?MarkBC said:Probably be xc-skiing by next weekend...
highz
Retreaded
The folklore around here is that when the alpine goldenrod blooms we are a month away from the first freeze. That means we've got two or three weeks to go. I go by my collie. When she starts shedding her undercoat to make room for the winter undercoat, I figure we will see autumn weather in about a month. This year her shedding agrees with the goldenrod prediction. We shall see.
