'Tis My Favorite Time of the Year

Winter Solstice , where the Northern Hemisphere has the longest night and shortest day of the year, happened today at 9:47am PST / 17:47 UTC.

Today ushers in my favorite season of the year: Wi nter .

I love it. I love the chill. I love being outside at night while snow is falling. I love skiing. I love walking in the winter. I love wearing more clothes. I love the lack of sun and heat. Love it.

My greatest disappointment in living in Southern California is the lack of snow.

I realize that the reason that everyone else, all the other 16-19 million folks who share this metro area with me, lives here is the utter lack of the snow. Saturday's weather is the real reason they live here: 80F at the beach.

I can have my fantasies. Yes, I can. The last few days I have watching my European, British, and East Coast friends' Flickrstreams for photos of snow falling in the night.

Here are a few of the truly lovely winter scenes from various locales that are not SoCal from the last 48 or so hours:

All photos from friends on Flickr, please click on the photo for the larger version.

by Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen on Mon December 21, 2009 9:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | art + photography , fun stuff , oh, california

2 Comments

On December 22, 2009 8:03 AM,
Jay Montano said:

Yay! All the days will start getting longer at last. I hate it when it gets dark at 4pm :(

Though I have been loving the early dashing of snow here. We don't normally get it until feb. Nice little christmas present - pls stay around for Christmas though - even if it's just a light dusting of flakes?

Hehe.

I don't like the ice though. It's very hard to carry suitcase up an icy driveway. It was like being on a game show yesterday :S

Advance Merry Christmas MsJen ^_^