Pic(k) of the Week: Forest Bleak

Chaos in a thicket,

Lichen on a bare tree.

Forest bleak.

Seminary Wood: Decatur, Georgia, USA. 10 December 2021.

The December solstice ("winter solstice" for us here in the northern hemisphere) occurs on Tuesday, 21 December at 10:59 a.m. EST. In terms of daylight, the day will be the 'shortest' of the year. And astronomical winter will have begun.

Bleak, indeed.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Happy hibernal solstice

Magenta dusk —over a blue-lit building, with green streetlamp tint— in Decatur, Georgia, USA.

The hibernal solstice —the onset of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere, but of the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere and the onset of astronomical summer there— occurs tonight, 21 December 2019, at 11:17 pm ET (your mileage may differ). The above photo was taken 24 November 2019...but you get the picture.

Happy hibernal solstice to all...and to all a good (condo) night.

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