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| Winter Woods Sunlight by Rachel Cohen |
"...The winter solstice, also called the hiemal solstice or hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky. Either pole experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice. The opposite event is the summer solstice. Depending on the hemisphere's winter solstice, at the Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn, the Sun reaches 90° below the observer's horizon at solar midnight, to the nadir..."
Thus Wikipedia. We're closing in on the end of 2022, and hope that 2023 will be a much better year. That can't be too difficult when you consider all that we've endured. I'm grateful that we managed to hold both our Spring and Fall Rendezvous, and had a chance to rekindle old friendships and enjoy the sense of comradery when shooters get together and make smoke and noise.
For those of you who might wish to indulge in some seventeenth century cuisine, I submit a recipe for Plum Pudding, the dessert we associate with Christmas. If your cabin is snowbound and your larder has all of the ingredients, give this a go!
