I have to admit that I cheated this year. One of my own traditions has always been to head out on the winter solstice to capture one last look at the outgoing ‘seasonal’ year. By luck the weather has usually been kind. But this year the weather, but mainly ‘other’ duties, prevented any notion of a trip……so here is an image of the shortest day from an earlier year.
From now on the daylight hours should gradually get longer, though it will seem an age till we notice any real benefit, but it is a start.
But the day had a surprise in store. The skies cleared towards evening and the sun added some colour to the descending gloom of the longest night ahead. No time to head out anywhere so a quick shot across the garden will have to suffice this year…..
Winter has yet to bite in our part of the world. We know it must visit us soon, but at least we can now be smug in the knowledge that the longest night is now behind us and spring is not that far away.
22nd December
© David Oakes 2013
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