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Tomorrow, December 21, 2020 is the winter solstice

3 years ago

It is both the first day of winter and the first day that the days become longer. The days becoming longer is what I look forward to, winter not so much. There have been years when the roses have already lost all their leaves and the leaf buds for next year start to swell. Jean in Nashville saw this more often that I did (my roses living a colder and less protected life.)

It will be interesting this year to see how, after a mild winter last year the OGRs and species react to what is seeming to be a second relatively mild so far winter. (Cold but not brutally so, knock on rose wood).

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jerijen

3 years ago

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bart bart
3 years ago
Happy winter solstice to all!
Alana8aSC
3 years ago
YAY! Happy Winter Solstice!!
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roseseek
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I am SO looking forward to lengthening days! I don't know how folks who live where it remains "dark" much of or all day long, do it. Happy Winter Solstice to all!
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Winter Solstice Celebrations!
Longer days from here!

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bart bart
3 years ago
Thank you for this solstice blessing, Jeri. I really like it, especially because it expresses gratitude for even these dark days. Being a fan of the I Ching, I try to see the dark as signifying the the light is on the way,and therefore rejoice in it. In this season,here in Italy I rejoice in these short, dark wet and rainy days, knowing that they bring much-blessed water to our acquifers and soil,and imagine all the roots quietly growing in the darkness of the earth. Though the light can be so, so beautiful on the sunny days of this season, I remember how awful it was a few years back when we had drought even in fall and winter,and so I rejoice in days like today, when the clouds are so heavy and low that you can't even see the top of the near-by hill,and it's soggy and wet outside, and more is predicted. Of course, this type of weather is why they invented Christmas lights; I've decorated our house thoroughly, as I always do, even though we don't recieve guests...

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