Winter Solstice Haiku

Winter Solstice Haiku

Ice coating red bud
of dogwood dormant, resting
waiting for the spring

~ Poem and photograph by Carolan Ivey, 2008

Solstice Spookies!

On solstice night, instead of lighting an outdoor fire, we played with fireworks. :) I didn't download them from my camera until tonight, and look what I found!

Granted, the third photo could be fireworks smoke, but I snapped about a hundred pictures in rapid succession. These three were taken within a 30-second timespan.

Many of the photos showed orbs, but the one I have circled here looked like it was approaching my camera. The wind was blowing from behind me, so in my mind the cloud in the third photo probably isn't smoke. Also, out of the 100-plus photos I snapped, this was the only one with this phenomenon. Cool, eh?

Solstice Live Webcast at Newgrange!

From Newgrange.com:

For the first time ever, the 2007 Winter Solstice illumination of the passage and chamber at Newgrange will be streamed live on the internet.

The webcast and an exhibition at the Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the re-discovery of the Winter Solstice Phenomenon at Newgrange by Professor O’Kelly in 1967.

The Winter Solstice event from inside the chamber at Newgrange will be broadcast on the mornings of Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd December 2007. If conditions are good the rising sun will illuminate the passage and chamber between 8:58am and 9:15am GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

To view the webcast click on the Heritage Ireland website.

Edit: I watched the webcast and it is wonderful! They had perfect weather. The entire show is about an hour long, and sunrise occurs about 20 minutes in.