The winter solstice is almost here, the shortest day of the solar year and a mystical one for pagans and worshippers of earth and heaven everywhere.When I visited Stonehenge years ago, I expected to be underwhelmed. Instead, I felt like an ancient druid, dumbfounded by the experience and drawn to it in a way that defies words.
So what better place to celebrate the solstice -- first with this photo of sunrise and then with one of sunset -- than at Stonehenge. Or, of course, wherever you happen to be at the time.
It always seems to me that I can feel a sort of turning of the earth on this day, a tilting toward the course that will carry the sun higher in the sky as the days began to lengthen again. And though darkness still reigns, we inch ever so gradually toward the light.
3 comments:
I didn't know you saw Stonehenge! One of my "must sees" but how to see it when there's no one else there is a big issue for me.
Ahhhh. Hard to believe the shortest day of the year is upon us when the sun is lovely and warm down here. I am, being a Leo, perhaps, a lover of sun and light -- still, there's something missing in my life without a hibernation period of some sort. So I call it "winter" when others might call it "depression." The sun is warm on my left shoulder as I'm writing this now and listening to my Winter Solstice III album, and I celebrate both the winter and the sun. :)
To celebrate the shortest day of the year, Don and I are heading to GA; then on to FL. I think we need to gradually work our way to staying an entire winter up north, when we have lived in FL for 40 years!
So we will be back when it looks like spring is coming.
We have enjoyed our snow for 2008, and now we will start 2009 in the sunshine!
So should I hope you don't find a buyer until March at least??? ;)
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