Good Yule, my friends.
Dec. 20th, 2010 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweedThe longest night of the year, and the days will start growing again. Let's enjoy.
But here is something I've observed: When you live in a big city, ambient lighting is a factor to consider. I came back from the grocery store just now and was dazzled by how bright it was: city lights bounce off the clouds in the sky, bounce off again against the snow cover on the streets and the sidewalks, and again off the big snowflakes pouring down and the snow in the trees.
The light on my block is uncanny, orangy, full of a deep muffled silence...and so weirdly bright. I've been out after dark here on the Summer Solstice, and I guarantee it's not bright enough to read by in the middle of my street. But on the Winter Solstice, it is!
I wish you all the fulfillment of all your needs and desires as the Sun grows again, my friends. (And if you live somewhere that's not overcast tonight, so you can actually see the lunar eclipse, I envy you, and please watch it on my behalf.)
But here is something I've observed: When you live in a big city, ambient lighting is a factor to consider. I came back from the grocery store just now and was dazzled by how bright it was: city lights bounce off the clouds in the sky, bounce off again against the snow cover on the streets and the sidewalks, and again off the big snowflakes pouring down and the snow in the trees.
The light on my block is uncanny, orangy, full of a deep muffled silence...and so weirdly bright. I've been out after dark here on the Summer Solstice, and I guarantee it's not bright enough to read by in the middle of my street. But on the Winter Solstice, it is!
I wish you all the fulfillment of all your needs and desires as the Sun grows again, my friends. (And if you live somewhere that's not overcast tonight, so you can actually see the lunar eclipse, I envy you, and please watch it on my behalf.)
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Date: 2010-12-21 05:51 am (UTC)but all of the warm solstice wishes right back at you.
xoxM
Silent night/Holy night/All is calm/All is bright~ We await the return of the sun
Date: 2010-12-22 09:35 am (UTC)Even though the clouds cover the sky and the fields should be pitch black, the ocean of snow outside my door glows an erthreal shade of blue and all is as silent as the night before the very first dawn.
Even though I'm not christian some songs just sort of fit the occasion.
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Date: 2010-12-25 01:08 am (UTC)The eclipse getting clouded out was a total bummer. Who wants to look at snow falling when you know that hidden behind those dreary clouds the moon is slowly turning blood red?