Reading for this winter solstice night: the remarkable diary of Frederick A. Cook, one of the first people to spend winter on Antarctica, including a night which lasted more than two months: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900 #Solstice #WinterSolstice #winter #LongestNight #shortestday

Mandatory listening

🔔Listen to Ring Out Solstice Bells by Jethro Tull on Qobuz🔔 https://open.qobuz.com/track/269385953

#Yule #Solstice #WinterSolstice #ShortestDay #LongestNight

Hello, Winter! ❄️ Today marks the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Cozy up and embrace the season! #WinterSolstice #FirstDayOfWinter #ShortestDay 🥶🧣
#HappyYule ~ #MerrySolstice * #NewEarthYear > #NewMoon - #Winter ^ #ShortestDay | #LongestNight = #YuleLog
Okay, daylight, do your thing. Starting tomorrow, more sun, every day, please!
& a Groovy New Moon to you - what seeds are you planting?
Hope you have a *Happy New Earth Year* - we start around the #Sun again!
#plant #clean #purge #prepare #lunar #beginning #waxing #moon #Earth #Yule #tree #druid #wreath #MistleToe #pagan #traditions

Shortest day of the year.
The light barely rises, the dark lingers longer than invited.

But lighthouses were never built for easy days.
They exist for the long nights, the rough seas, the moments when direction matters most.

The light is on.
It always is.

#LighthouseLore #WinterSolstice #ShortestDay #KeepTheLightOn #IndieWeb #Fediverse #SelfHosting

Solstice, oh the solllllllstice, when long nights start shrinnnnnnnking and the day eloooooooooongates to bring us joy!

There's a tune in my mind, which I'm pretty sure it made up itself, and which I am not going to try to capture.

Happy #ShortestDay everyone! #solstice

#wintersolstice #shortestday #landscape
With the promise of brighter days ahead.

@kushal

It rises to a peak of 7° elevation before returning below the horizon, six hours after sunrise.

Nice to see it again though 🙂

#ShortestDay #WinterSolstice

Just wanted to say WOOOO!! It's the shortest day! Which means we can look forward to spring from now on. Thank goodness for that. Happy Solstice and see you in 2026!! #wintersolstice #solstice #shortestday