Good Yule, Happy Solstice, Welcome Winter! 6:12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in the U.S. I don't know what time that is around the world. Now the sun is climbing back toward the north bringing spring and summer closer and closer. Not all that excited about spring and summer, I want some Winter first
Well, since we are all still here, I guess the Mayan calendar had it wrong. Toni, it looks as if you might get a dose of winter this weekend with a chance of snow! If it makes you happy, it makes me happy. Now comes the time of garden catalog looking and ordering, plant starting, and talking gardens here on the Stew. Oh, what a happy time of the year .
Yay! I hate the short days and I'm glad they will start getting longer again! marlingardener - the Mayan calender just needs to start again - just like our calender - flip the page! LOL
Jane, I want to get to know your weather prognosticator, Our TV stations are saying 68 and 71 for highs this weekend. Christmas day forecast on two of them says 40% chance of flurries and one says 20% chance of rain....but that is dependent on when the cold front gets here. It could roll through earlier on Monday and get completely passed us leaving us high and dry once again.
Happy Solstice! I am welcoming winter this year with a nice blanket of snow. Toni, come up north a few hundred miles to get a taste! Anyway, I always feel optimistic about the days getting longer...little by little...
Yep...longer days by the minute.....Hip hip hooray!!!!I am all for it. Today is snowing and blowing/windy. I am all done now. I ordered all of mu seeds and now I need to clean out the greenhouse and get spring on it's way.
I never notice the longer days til about mid-January. Today is cold and windy here (TN Z7) but we've had only a few wintry days- so far. Jan and Feb are our worst, for the weather anyway. Sometime in mid-Feb I will start some tomato plants, if I'm still around, LOL.
Toni, our weatherman has changed his tune (as he so often does). Now his prediction agrees with yours. I personally think that the hair dye he uses has affected his brain. He was predicting 17i degrees for last night, and it got all the way down to 33!
I guess spoiled after after last winter.2 days of snow and ice.But more coming keep my yak-traks close by. And I don't care out of fashion-thick stocking hat.
I am NOT ready for spring and summer!!! I want some good old fashioned WINTER with lots of snow and cold and ice... I do not even have all my leaves raked up, the flower beds cleaned out, or dozens of other fall chores finished yet. How about a few good blizzards like we used to have when we were kids, and a WHITE CHRISTMAS. MERRY CHRISTMAS, FOOEY ON THE SOLSTICE. ( photo / image / picture from AAnightowl's Garden ) This picture is not part of my garden. It was on a pretty Christmas card I got once. Hey Toni, I thought you lived in the Northern Hemisphere ? Or do you live down under ?
Look to the left of this post, a little bit under my avatar....I live in Texas. And lacking any polar shifts last Friday, Texas is still in the northern hemisphere. Not everyone in the northern hemisphere has blizzards on Christmas or any other time of the winter for that matter. I am certainly not ready for Spring or Summer either but the Winter Solstice is the time of the year when the sun ends it's southward journey and begins returning to the north. And as the Sun returns to the north it brings Spring and Summer closer and closer. It is also arbitrarily referred to as the first day of Winter which gives you approximately 3 months of winter to come. The Solstice and christmas are two different events so white christmas or not there is a Winter Solstice every year.
