After the Fall (Lunch Break)

Click for huge - Mt. Rainier in the sunset, a shadow stretching across the heavens. I can relate!

Satan, man.

Not a shop. African weirdness, rather.

Also not a shop, but rather a well timed cloud. Dig it.

Puny Human

Here's the actual respective sizes of the members of our Solar System. Clearly, the Sun is the King. Jupiter and Saturn are the big bad boys, with Neptune and Uranus as doormen/servant/planet about town. Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury are tiny specks of nothing on the scale of the Sun.

And all our lives, all our drama, all our wants and needs and loss and grief, everything we sing and see and tell on to future generations, it's all there on that speck of dust underneath the arrow labeled "Earth".

Merry Solstice!

Analemma - rarely photographed, here's the sun making a full course throughout a year, from Summer Solstice to Summer Solstice. Trippy, eh?

In danger of being trod upon. In honor of:

Stonehenge

Stonehenge! ‘Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise with a dragon’s face
Stonehenge! Where the virgins lie
And the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky

And you my love, won’t you take my hand?
We’ll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there, I will show you how

Oh!

And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon

And where are they now?
The little children of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here… tonight

 May your day be long and cloud free!

The Reason for the Season

Let us not forget the real reason for the season this Holiday period: The Winter Solstice, together with the Summer Solstice one of the two most important days of the year. Today the old year died, and the new one is born. Reborn, or resurrected, if you will. 

Christians appropriated much of existing Pagan celebrations of this time, and it is the pagan traditions we still celebrate, with Christian lies frosting the top. Be sure to mention this to the next mouth breather ranting about Christ in Christmas.

Happy Solstice everyone! Best wishes in the new year!