June Solstice Question
Happy Solstice! Time to celebrate with a micro puzzle… If you walked towards sunrise for ten minutes this morning, then waited and walked towards sunset…
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Observing Saturn’s Rings – A Tip
My thanks to Prof. Otta Wenskus for an interesting tip for observing Saturn: This has been a lousy summer for stargazing, though great for learninglots…
Winter Solstice in Texas
My thanks to Dan Acosta for this image of winter solstice sunrise yesterday from Corpus Christi, on the coast of Texas. The red arrow shows…
Sun Tunnels and the Solstice
A Guest Post by Nik Huggins. As nature lovers and navigators throughout the northern hemisphere celebrate the summer solstice, our minds may drift to the…
That Sudden Autumn Feeling
Have you had that feeling recently that the season has not so much shifted to autumn, as snapped? There is a time each year when…
Ground Moisture
Happy New Year! At times like this, I sometimes wonder what the Earth and Sun would say to each other if they could talk. They…
Stones of Wonder
Just back from a little research in the New Forest. While I gather my thoughts about all the natural clues to wayfinding that the Forest…
Moss on Northern Sunny Side
As we approach the summer solstice the sun has so much north in it that no side of buildings, trees or other exposed areas will…
Winter Solstice
Today is the winter solstice. I would love to give you a long blog entry, but unfortunately this is not possible as I am too…
The Sun’s Shadow in Winter and Summer
The last course stirred up some healthy discussion about the difference between the sun’s summer and winter arcs in the sky. The arcs are actually…
A Rich Soup
I regularly find myself balancing the scientific explanations for something, natural observations of the same thing, historical accounts and even folklore. It can be a…