W is for Winter Solstice

Yesterday was Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year and the day that the sun turns in its path and the days for us Northerners start to get longer.

The photo was taken at my observatory. Only on this day does the rays from the rising sun creep through the wooden structures placed in its path and create the pattern in the snow just like this. Only on this day of the year is it possible to get such a photo at this time of the day and the sun hitting the snow like this. Only on this day will the pattern symbolize the the return of the sun.

In other words, it is a photo of the snow on my terrace with the rays from the sun coming between the boards of the wooden fence...

But it was shot yesterday.

Today's post is an entry in the FIFTH round of ABC Wednesday, the meme initiated by Denise Nesbitt.

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