The shortest day and what a day: a "heartbreaking work of staggering genius" I kept thinking, though I`ve never read the book of that name.
It began spectacularly with a full lunar eclipse and as the moon slipped below the horizon in the West the sun rose into a clear blue sky, making the icing sugar snow sparkle. It stayed freezing cold and almost eerily still all day - a whole lexicon of superlatives couldn`t have done it justice and, at least on this occasion,it felt as if photos would have been a bit superfluous.
And then the morning ceremony was reversed as the sun sank slowly down - in the south at this time of the year - and the full moon rose magnificently over the hill to the north,shooting a path of light across the snow, making it sparkle all over again.
The gods can certainly put on a good show when they try. Happy solstice.
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