Posts Tagged "winter doldrums"

What Is A Solstice, Anyway?

Posted by on Dec 21, 2018 in holiday, winter | 0 comments

What Is A Solstice, Anyway?

What is a solstice? It’s the darkest part of winter. Yet paradoxically, it’s a time to celebrate warmth, and light, and life.

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Red Orange Yellow Day

Posted by on Jan 25, 2014 in flowers, Unmowed Blog, winter | 0 comments

Red Orange Yellow Day

It’s January. The dead of winter. Long ago, I had a terrific boss who insisted that every year the staff celebrate Red Orange Yellow Day. I’m not sure if he made it up, or if there really is such a thing. The celebration was always held in the third week of January, a month famous for gray skies, dirt-speckled snow, and cold toes. I guess the idea was to brighten everyone up through the mid-winter blues, and it certainly was effective. Every on the staff wore the requisite colors and shared a pot-luck lunch of salsa, ziti, orange juice, rainbow sherbet, lemon meringue pie and what-have-you....

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