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My first visit to Sycamore Gap Saturday night for sunset on the longest day!
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wasn't a great deal of light & even less colour! but it is a place I'll return to & hopefully the colour will be better! & hopefully not as many midges!!
Also bumped into
I went for a hike for Summer Solstice to Múlakolla in Ólafsfjarðarmúli, N-Iceland.
The hike was up to 984 m above sea level, which gave the most amazing view on the way.
This is a panorama of 7 photos taken when we were about 3/4 of the way up to the top, giving close to a 300°view..
More photos from the hike on my facebook page.
And a video I shot on my mobile phone while sliding down the hills on the way back down. hehe...I had fun.
I was totally proud of myself to start the summer's hikes with such a high and steep one and be able to do it and return home feeling like I'd conquered the world - or at least a small part of it.
The weather was awesome, to be able to watch the summer solstice, sun setting on the horizon and then rise without going down from nearly a 1000m up; fantastic!
The light gets better from today!
The natural new year - I always like to think and reflect on it at this time. To celebrate the wonder of reality for a moment and feel a bit of connection to the wonder of the neolithic people of the Northern Hemisphere. The winter must have been such a difficult time but they trusted and celebrated that Spring, although still months away, was definitely coming. The predictable cycle must have been so reassuring and such a focus in their thinking. The point were the light was coming back would have felt so worth celebrating - in the middle of the darkest coldest time.
The Pagan "Yule" has kept a word in our language at this time of year but I dont think it actually conjures up much about the solstice in our minds.
I think the Christmas/Hanukkah festivals and the Roman Saturnalia that they derive from lost most of that central connection with the reality of the natural cycle. I am sure we are a bit the poorer for that.
Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light
Solstice Canyon is one of my favorite hikes in the LA area - it's shaded most of the way, and at the end of the trail there's this interesting old house foundation that was built in the 50s and burned down in the 80s. It was built right into the hillside and next to a little waterfall - must have been a beautiful spot to live.
For the summer solstice, here's a little snow to help us keep our cool as the warm season begins in the northern hemisphere.
This pano from my March 3 trip to Yosemite after a snowstorm is made up of 4 vertical images.
Using a Solar Puck pinhole camera with a sheet of photographic paper inside I captured the path of the sun from June 21 until December 21, 2025. Foreground shot separately and blended in. Northern Arizona, at my Bortle 1 site.
"It's the summer solstice, you say? We had no idea."
Cool Pool Lemonade and Cherry Beach Sunset pose for the theme "Summer Solstice" in the Blythe a Day group.
I'm happy with how this sun turned out. It was easy to make; I just cut long triangles of construction paper using my paper cutter, and then traced around a plate and cut out the yellow circle for the center. I arranged it on the floor, on a large piece of orange fabric from my stash, and voila!
Wish you a wonderful week end.................here in Rome it is snowing ( well raining.........:)
Hugs!
June 20th 2005 : On a whim I decided to travel down to Wiltshire to Stonehenge to experience the Summer Solstice, taking my trusty Fujifilm FinePix camera with me.
I left London around 10pm and arrived in Wiltshire to find a well organised parking system, although the fields were some distance away from Stonehenge, it did remind me of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, overhead lighting, clearer starry skies and darkness outside the bright perimeter.
I did manage a few hours shut eye, rising around 4am to take the long walk to the stones. I would estimate there were in the region of 2000 other folks, maybe more, hippies, new age and curious people too, like me.
As the sun rose there was a genuine feeling of elation, much singing and dancing, chanting and praying going on around me. Honestly an interesting, historical, fascinating and genuinely worthwhile trip to take once in a lifetime! It did help that the English weather blessed us with clear skies, warm enough temperatures and very little wind, with Stonehenge being out on Salisbury plain.
Once the main event finished people filtered away back across the fields, returning to their lives, touched by something unique and locked into memory.
I don’t know if it’s allowed anymore but in 2005 we had free rein over the site, touching and standing on the stones, with very little interference from the organisers. To be honest clearly nobody wanted to cause trouble.
Love to hear your experiences of the Solstice, particularly Stonehenge. Many thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope you can enjoy some of the photos.
The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer, which is the circle marking the latitude 23.5 degrees north, and which runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and southern China, according to the National Weather Service. For those living above the Tropic of Cancer, it is the longest day of the year.
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" GIRL " (Beatles) by yours truly www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLR0HIF0pk
For many bygone civilizations, the summer solstice—the longest day of the year—was endowed with great significance. People celebrated this special day, which falls in June in the northern hemisphere and is also known as midsummer, with festivals, celebrations and other observances, some of which still survive or have experienced a revival in modern times.
The rising moon shines through the trees on the 2021 Winter Solstice with the moisture in the air giving it a large orange halo.
The morning of 21st December and the faithfull followers of the Solstice Sunrise go to Newgrange to greet the first of the suns rays ,its not always guaranteed that the weather will be on your side to see the sun that day but on this day 21st December 2007 everything was perfect and the sun rose in spectacular fashon.
The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth's axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26'. Though the Summer Solstice is an instant in time, the term is also colloquially used like Midsummer to refer to the day on which it occurs. Except in the polar regions (where daylight is continuous for many months during the spring and summer), the day on which the Summer Solstice occurs is the day of the year with the longest period of daylight. Thus the seasonal significance of the Summer Solstice is in the reversal of the gradual shortening of nights and lengthening of days.
The word solstice derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). Wikipedia
Pictures straight from the camera with no editing.
The solstice has been recognized and celebrated by humans for millennia as a time to celebrate the return of the sun after the longest night of the year. Birth and rebirth are also associated with this time of the year.
as days are getting longer, nature will expand again will new leaves, delightful food, pretty colors!
Instead of the usual reds and oranges our sunsets show, this one, taken at sunset on the Winter Solstice, has more strange yellows in it.
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Solent Solstice Sunset - 21 June 2017
Taken about 40 minutes before the sun sank into a bank of fog on the horizon.
The longest day of the year and the hottest day for 40 years.
Wishing you a lovely Solstice and a happy Sunday, dear friends.
...The image is taken in a wonderful 'English Country Garden' in my region. It is worth a visit every year.
Not only a Rosarium but a great landscape garden (9 hectares with rare trees and bushes), a lovely tea house and much more.
I added a "Sage" effect to give it an impressionist touch.
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*** FROHE SONNENWENDE ***
ich wünsche Euch eine Frohe Sonnenwende und einen
wunderschönen Sonntag. Vielerorts werden heute Abend die
Sonnenwendfeuer entzündet, ich freue mich darauf.
Das Foto ist im "Landhaus Ettenbühl", einem wunderschönen
Gartenparadies in Englisher Tradition imMarkgräflerland aufgenommen. Jedes Jahr einen Besuch wert...
Ich habe einen "Sage" Effekt hinzugefügt, um einen impressionistischen Effekt zu erhalten.
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Many thanks for your kind visits and comments, very much appreciated.
Danke für Euern Besuch und Eure Kommentare.
It was just about daybreak when L517 reached New Richmond. With a cut of autoracks to spot I waited while they got started on their work and the day brightened a bit before heading out. By the time I got to the west end snow showers had started as well.
BNSF 292 has been protecting one of the L516/L517 sets for a while but I haven't had any luck catching it leading in daylight. I like how the SD75Is look in this scheme and catching this one on the Minneapolis Sub gave me the motivation needed to bundle up stand out here on winter solstice.
With the cut of loaded auto carriers tied down on the sidetrack L517 has threaded through the switches and come to a stop over 95th St. Once lined back to their train the power will east back up the main to the balance of their train. A short time later they'll resume the trip west. December 21, 2021.
This Girl Danced with her Fire Hoop as we watched the Solstice Sunrise appear over the horizan at Newgrange she was part of the Save Tara Group which had been at Tara all night and had come over to Newgrange for the Solstice she twisted and turned engulfed in her passion for the Solstice for a good five minutes as the sun broke through the haze and the clouds, and only stopped when the fire went out on her fire hoop ,it was a joy to watch and i shared her passion with her .
This image was taken during the early hours of the summer solstice.
As I had been out to the location during the daytime, I decided to head back out and setup at a new spot. It was also a good time to get out whilst the skies were clear.
Incredibly the Milky Way could be seen with the naked eye, something that I have noticed during my previous visits.
Happy Winter Solstice everyone!
I hope your winter is a mild one. This is an old shot. Didn't seem right posting a winter shot without snow.
If December is any indication, it should be a warm one. 50's and rain is the forecast for Christmas!
this is boo, who crept up and jumped in bed, next to me, avoiding chai's place. she left me about 8 inches on which to sleep.
normally boo sleeps either downstairs, or upstairs on the couch. [chai, jones, schubert, and i are upstairs] .
boo got an owie on her leg a couple days ago and she wanted in the bed.
now chai sleeps right next to me, and altho' he's used to jones sleeping under the covers next to or below him, he doesn't want boo in the bed.
the first night I got up and made my bed on the couch only to look up and find chai up and staring at me the minute I got settled.
mama has to sleep in the bed. next to chai. and boo may not.
so I returned to the bed and moved boo over a bit.
she got the hint and lay down on the couch.
the next night, the same thing.
[to be continued]
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I added two rescue groups at the top of the menu on my website. one of them is jon's
the other is the rescue that provided us with three loving hounds.
As sun hit the mountains on the morning of winter solstice, a snow storm hovered over the mountains and threatened to sweep into Boulder. Almost everything in this photo is Boulder Open Space and Mountain Park.
Jupiter Top
a shiny leather top in 14 colors.(including a holographic white)
Mesh Body Sizes: Maitreya/Slink/Belleza
new in world location coming soon
Hope you're all having a non-solicitous solstice!
Northern Hemisphere folks! Make the most of the shortest day of the year. A vampire's dream!
Southern hemisphere folks! Hope you're enjoying the longest day of the year. A vampire's scourge!. From here on in, we start getting the sun back from you guys!
Today is day 210 of Project 365 (Wednesday).