Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: solstice

21 December, Winter Solstice! I'm quite looking forward to it this year. Today 17 December, we have 3 hours and 43 minutes twix sunrise and sunset. Tomorrow will be one minute and 3 seconds shorter. -But we'll creeping up toward the solstice, the shortest day of the year and after that… the days will start getting longer and longer again, although not necessarily warmer for a while. As noted above I'm delighted to think that in just a few more days we'll be over the hump and no matter how cold it gets, we'll be rushing pell mell, gaining minutes after minutes a day of sunlight, rushing downhill toward summer! OK, OK, up here on top of the world it's still going to take us about 5 months of that "rushing" to reach summer, but I'm delighted to have the downhill slope in sight! -grin- Soft pastels on 12 by 12 inch colored card stock.

Painted around nine last night, 21 June, at the NorthPole Grange. The sun was still up, it didn't set until around one in the morning and was back up before 3 a.m. Watercolor, 'Creatacolor Bricks', on 11 by 14 inch Bristol vellum.

My 24 hour sundial, that I built last year, says it's 9:40 on the longest day of the year (tomorrow the official summer solstice, is actually 6 seconds shorter!). If the weather cooperates and I remember, I'll see how close I can come to reading midnight on it before the sun gets lost behind the trees.

Alas, The sun's a little too low around midnight, even on the summer solstice, to run my 24 hour sun dial, hence the digital clock augment. Maybe if I cut down some trees to the north... Taken a few minutes before midnight with no flash, no artificial light.