Re: Winter Solstice/ Summer solstice

loretta gerity jacobs wrote:
> 
>     Greeting, Friends , family, and "others",
> 
> TOnight in Celebration of the shortest day of the year, the
> beginning of the new year for some of us gardeners, sometimes
> also known as the darkest day of the year, or the coldest night
> of the year, I am going to turn on my Holiday lights and leave
> them on for 24 hours. I don't have lights enough to strain the
> already overburdened California power structure, and besides
> this day is also known as "The Festival of Lights".
> 
> As we search for ways to celebrate this troublesome holiday in
> ways that are more appropriate, I offer this up as one pleasant
> way to acknowledge that something special is going on. And your
> neighbors might enjoy them as well. So, tonight, as the sun
> sets, let's see those lights.
> 
> With love and hope for a wonderful and productive New Year to
> all.
> 
> loretta gerity jacobs, pele the dog, hillary the cat, the "Six
> barbaras", and the lone fish known as Mulder.

Good new year wishes to you also Loretta and tribe!

Here south of the Line it is  of course our _longest_ day and holds to
promise of long lazy summer days to follow.

Curiously, it is also a feast of lights for us, as quite a few people
(we have one down our street) go to vast trouble and ingenuity to
decorate their houses with Christmas lights. In Dunedin there is whole
short suburban street which puts on a combined display, but I don't
think we have anything so concentrated locally. Various local
authorities sometimes join in also, especially decorating specific
trees. Our local council for years did this with a huge landmark pine
tree, but the last year or two it has remained dark, apparently due to
efforts at cost- cutting.

It is quite common at this time of year for people to take a drive round
in the dusk to enjoy the illuminations.

Moira

-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
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