Some reflections on the solstice
Published at 6:23 pm on June 21st, 2022
Filed under: Dear Diary.
There were sundogs, yesterday, as the sun was getting low on the horizon. After sunset, there were high, wispy, noctilucent clouds to be seen, and a red glow in the north-west sky which did not fade until getting on for midnight. This is, after all, the North, where midsummer sunset is dead on the North-West compass point.*
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Keyword noise: solstice, summer solstice, hope.
In which it is probably Midsummer
Published at 9:48 am on June 21st, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary, Unbelievable.
I was thinking: really, I should post something newsworthy, or political, because there hasn’t been much of that on here lately. Nothing in the news has caught my eye, though – it’s all been football-related, and I really couldn’t care one way or the other about it. Then, though, I remembered that today is the summer solstice.*
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Keyword noise: annual, astronomy, End Of The Year, ephemeris, festival, midsummer, seasons, solstice, summer, summer solstice.