A Day to Be Celebrated: Winter Solstice

"Cosmo"
I photographed him last August.
To me, he is the poster child for winter.

Happy Solstice day everyone. I woke up surprisingly cheerful this morning. Today is the shortest day of the year, in case you didn't know. Change is only 24 hours away. 

 

Tomorrow in eastern Washington, we will gain 3 seconds of daylight and it gets better from there.

FUN FACTS

Did you know today:

Fairbanks, AK will enjoy 3:41 hours daylight

Yuma, AZ will enjoy 9:59 hours daylight

Kennewick, WA will enjoy: 8:36 hours daylight

 

I found some nice quotes for this first day of  winter. Enjoy today wherever you are.

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" — J.B. Priestley

 

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." — Norman Douglas

 

"My old grandmother always used to say, 'Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever." — George R.R. Martin

 

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'" — Lewis Carroll

 

"Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness." — Mary Oliver

 

love, susan