8:49 PM tonight and winter is here! Our home will be filled with pagan rituals as we celebrate the holiday! Happy Winter Solstice everyone!
Happy Solstice to you and The Lady!ski3pin said:8:49 PM tonight and winter is here! Our home will be filled with pagan rituals as we celebrate the holiday! Happy Winter Solstice everyone!
Thank you Mr. Sage! Enjoy the daylight getting longer!Wandering Sagebrush said:Happy Solstice to you and The Lady!
I've always used the US Naval Observatory database of astro/almanac times/dates for my "duties" compiling info for the ONDA Wild Desert Calendar. And the USNO website says the winter solstice is 22 Dec, 04:48 UT ("Universal Time", aka "GMT"). And Sky and Telescope also says 04:48 UT....winter solstice will occur at 0449 hrs GMT...
We lost a big fir, probably 3'+ at the base. It fell across the far edge of our pond. Saturated soils, compounded by shallow soils due to an underlayer of what we call hardpan and below that, a layer of Chuckanut sandstone. It could also be due to neighbors logging the heck of the surrounding properties.Wandering Sagebrush said:Our solstice windstorm is beginning. Predictions of gusts to 65 mph here in the Willamette Valley. With the saturated ground, that could be a real bad time with trees.
x2billharr said:LOVE this day. I know we get just a little more daylight everyday now. ;-)
x3!billharr said:LOVE this day. I know we get just a little more daylight everyday now. ;-)