The winter solstice occurs on December 21 at 2338 Universal Time. That’s 5:38 p.m. MuseBlog time (U.S. Central Standard Time), or 11:38 p.m. Icelandic time.
*Or summer, for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.
Patience, Please
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YES! first post! I hope, unless someone else is posting right now…. No! Hurry! Ohhh….. Yay! Winter solstice!
SATURNALIA!!!!
Excuse me, I’m off to sacrifice a goat.
I’m of to sacrifice Justin beaver and Dylan. ( Bird-kid Gary-stu Dylan.)
~have a nice day~
Io Saturnalia, amici!
Winter Solstice
Goodbye growth
Goodbye rain
Goodbye sprouts growing underfoot where there once was simply grass in death
Goodbye spring.
Goodbye sunlight
Goodbye warmth
Goodbye afternoons spent outside in the slightly warm air and the golden sun and the green trees
Goodbye summer.
Goodbye orange and gold and red
Goodbye leaf piles
Goodbye barely cold winds that brush your face and leave you pleasantly cool
Goodbye fall.
Hello ice
Hello snow
Hello skies with just a tint of gray that make the empty trees dark grey silhouettes
Hello winter
You make winter sound negative. It’s my favorite season.
Hurrah for the shortest day of the year! I like winter well enough, but a significant part of me is already missing the sun.
We had a very nice sunset tonight here. When the sun was below the horizon, the horizon itself was orange, and the farther away you looked, it faded to yellow, and then turquoise-green, and then blue.
First day of winter. Was 85 (30) here.
Same here. *sigh*
Let’s just say that I’m embarrassed to live in the state that I live in at the moment. It’s the day after the solstice and we’ve had less than half a foot of snow in the past six months.
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We’ve had much less than a half inch it the past six years. Actually, I think it’s snowed once here in those years, didn’t even reach the ground, and still caused us all to run outside, dance around, and call off school for the rest of the day.
Jeez. How could anyone live in a place without snow?
I think I manage well.
I know! Crazy people! I just can’t imagine living somewhere with no snow year round. *thinks* Another thing I don’t get is why everyone goes to Florida for Christmas. No offense to Florida, and I’m sure it’s wonderful, but why on Earth would you want to leave lovely Maine? It’s usually snowy and wonderful around here, and everyone hangs up lobster buoys outside, and all the pine trees in my yard are amazing right now, and it’s cold outside and everyone is nice and cozy inside,a nd we drink hot chocolate and eggnog and walk outside barefoot when our parents’ backs are turned (tradition
) and we have our lobster trap tree on Main Street, and everything smells all piney and it’s just amazing. I love snow.
We spend a lot of time making up amusing parodies to ‘I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas’.
… shall I begin?
I wish I lived in a place that actually got snow when it was supposed to. In CT, all we got were little flurries that didn’t stick (and all of them in November, too).
Our situation was like that for about six years in there. It’s been better the last couple, but it’s still pathetic.
The thing is – I live in the state that is supposed to be pretty much one of the winter pinnacles of the US, so… yeah.
Were I live, it snows about a half inch every ten years. *goes and cries in the RAIN*
Well, it’s snowed about an inch and a half where I live, but now it’s melting…
Haha! Some of the (made by plows) snowbanks are /taller/ than me here! Mwahaha!
Re: Snow: Oregon is the perfect place. Where I live, it snows about once a year, and then everybody panics and you get a day off of school. Even if it’s an inch and it’s melting my noon.
That is to say, there is now snow right now. 40 degrees F and raining. So close! We usually get snow in January anyway.