Standing Still, Looking Ahead

Illumination of Earth by Sun at the southern solstice.

This season’s Solstice (Winter in the Northern hemisphere, Summer in the Southern), occurs at 17:47pm UTC on December 21, 2008. That’s 12:47 PM where I am, in the Eastern Time zone.

The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, its apparent movement north or south comes to a standstill.
Solstice, Wikipedia

We got about 10″ of snow over the weekend, and it’s not going anywhere soon. So it’s definitely wintery here. Here’s another of my neighbors’ illuminary displays.
9 Lewis Place, Beverley Square West

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Links

Solstice (Wikipedia)

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