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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: October 1st

September 30, 2023 JanF 53

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: September 24th

September 23, 2023 JanF 62

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

September 23, 2023 JanF 3

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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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 17th

September 16, 2023 JanF 83

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My Sister Mary, Quite Contrary, Grows No Garden Now

September 15, 2023 Diana in NoVa 6

Mary Martin, aged 22, St. Louis, Missouri (circa 1967) Mistress Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells And pretty maids all in a row. Old English nursery rhyme   […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 10th

September 9, 2023 JanF 73

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 3rd

September 2, 2023 JanF 75

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 27th

August 26, 2023 JanF 72

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 20th

August 19, 2023 JanF 59

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 13th

August 12, 2023 JanF 71

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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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Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am 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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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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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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