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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: May 3rd

May 2, 2026 JanF 30

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 26th

April 25, 2026 JanF 61

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 19th

April 18, 2026 JanF 65

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 12th

April 11, 2026 JanF 76

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 5th

April 4, 2026 JanF 48

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 29th

March 28, 2026 JanF 57

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd

March 21, 2026 JanF 59

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 15th

March 14, 2026 JanF 54

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 8th

March 7, 2026 JanF 66

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 1st

February 28, 2026 JanF 62

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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

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At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]

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Today, March 20th, at 7:46am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]
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At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]
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The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]
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An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]

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