Here in Seattle, today is an important day. We start getting the sun back. Only you can't tell until late January!
but now ... we all know it's getting better again.
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Well, I guess it was actually yesterday!
But let's celebrate longer days!!!!!!
Happy dance!!!!!
More sun! more daylight hours!
Less SAD! Less bike withdrawal!
Hmmm....how come it's still cold?
"Being retired from Biking...isn't that kinda like being retired from recess?" Stephen Colbert asked of Lance Armstrong
Here in Seattle, today is an important day. We start getting the sun back. Only you can't tell until late January!
but now ... we all know it's getting better again.
Well down here in the very deep south there's the tradition of bon fires - I wonder how many of the faithful fire builders really know where the tradition comes from? snicker
Anyway, the fires are built on top of the Mississippi River levee to -
- guide Papa Noel's sleigh
- or bring in the New Year
So the Solstice Fires are buring down here, and the sun WILL return!
Oh, and don't worry - the fires are built on the levee where there isn't a bike path. So if I felt like riding, I still could.
Beth
Yeah, I've been thinking witch-y thoughts since yesterday
All you need is love...la-dee-da-dee-da...all you need is love!
Just think, it won't be long before we have to remember to ride with our mouths shut again so bees and other insects don't become unintended food. I can't wait.
I think it goes back long before any organized system, when we just needed a little heat and light.
Karen
Yeh!! I used to not mind the cooler/cold weather but lately I just can'y warm up. Looking forward to the warm weather and having more daylight!!
Summer soltice here - longest day been and gone - hopefully the d*** tui will stop waking me at 5am and every morning I will get a few seconds longer to sleep
Solstice blessings all... whichever solstice you have been a part of
RR-there's nothing like the sight of a Tui Such beautiful birds.
If you can, take a photo of it pleeeease!!!
Perhaps we need to introduce de Amerucins to the tui! (not the beer RR )
C
Definitely not just a pine tree (wouldn't last very long). Bonfires are attested in history.
Any way, happy solstice. If you want to see something really interesting, go here:
http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/Solstice2007/
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Over here in the Florida panhandle (about 250 miles east of New Orleans), we usually have a bonfire for the winter solstice. But yesterday was windy, rainy, stormy, and today the wind is kicking a$$. So we just have to settle for being happy to greet the returning sun. Here's to lengthening days!
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Since I was sensible and did NOT ride my bike for the winter solstice, I can only offer you Raleighdon's ride report:
http://www.sersale.org/bike/dbsolstice.htm
enjoy!
Wow! With all that riding, I don't know how he has time to do the ride report!
Tell him WELL DONE!
If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers