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| Astronomical winter begins in the northern hemisphere this Wednesday,
December 21. It will be the shortest day of the year. After that the days will lengthen, slowly at first, then in increasing increments.
In Philadelphia the sun sets today at 4:37. Next week, on Christmas day, at
4:41. Things will get brighter. That's the good news. On the other hand, I'm already pretty cold and winter hasn't even started yet. Click to enlarge. |
And now a timely poem. Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams:
"All the complicated details
of the attiring
and the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold."
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