Showing posts with label first day of winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first day of winter. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Sunset Of A Winter Solstice ...

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

    ~ Claude Monet

     ~ 1840 ~ 1926

Golden hues sweep and swirl across the winter sky as flocks of Canadian Geese glide toward the point of sunset on the Winter Solstice of December 21, 2022 in this abstract image I captured from the Jordan Creek Greenway at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield, Pennsylvania.


The Winter Solstice ~ the first day of winter ~ astronomically marks the beginning of lengthening days and shortening nights.

 The word solstice comes from the Latin words for “sun” and “to stand still.” In the Northern Hemisphere, it always occurs around December 21 or 22.


 

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Flight Into Sunset ...


"Softly the evening came ..."
                                     ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
                                                                 ~ 1807-1882 

 

Canadian Geese fly into a fiery sunset as the evening softly
comes to Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania
on the first day of winter in December 2014.