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Calissa ([personal profile] calissa) wrote2015-12-23 07:15 pm
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Merry Midsummer

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A merry belated Midsummer to everyone celebrating it. And a merry Yule to all my friends in the Northern Hemisphere.

I took yesterday off to mark the occasion and spent some time cooking myself pancakes and contemplating the looming spectre of 2016.

The weather here has been all over the place. We had 37 Celsius over the weekend (with a minimum of 20 in between). However, the last two days have been much cooler and grey, with some rain. My vegetable garden is lapping it up.
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[personal profile] bunny_m 2015-12-23 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
RAIN!

Oh, I wish there was a good, long rain here any time soon.

But no, we're pretty much in the middle of First Summer/Birak, and in 3-4 weeks we'll get started on High Summer/Bunuru.

Ugh!

I long for the cool/cold and wet/windy days of High Winter/Makuru already.
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calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)

[personal profile] calissa 2015-12-27 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I hear summer is pretty brutal out your way, so I can understand how you might long for Makuru. I do hope that summer is kind to you this year.

I'm still working out if the D'harawal Calendar is a good fit for this area, considering we are further south, less coastal and more alpine. However, according to that reckoning, we are just about to move out of warm and wet Parra'dowee and into hot and dry Burran, so that may be the last rain we see for a little while.
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[personal profile] meridian_rose 2015-12-23 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you had a nice time - pancakes sound like a good idea :)
The weather here has been odd with very unseasonably warm temperatures for the UK!
calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)

[personal profile] calissa 2015-12-27 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The pancakes are a personal tradition and very tasty (especially with some Golden Syrup on top. Nom).

It sounds like the weather has been odd all over the globe. Are you enjoying the extra warmth?
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[personal profile] meridian_rose 2015-12-31 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't feel very Christmassy when it's so warm is the thing. Then we had major storms again yesterday but it looks like more settled and cooler weather is moving in :)
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[personal profile] alee_grrl 2015-12-23 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Midsummer blessings to you as well! The weather has been unseasonably warm here in Vermont. Instead of our usually snow we've been getting rain. I'm glad we're getting precipitation of some kind since it'd been a dry autumn, but missed having snow on the ground for Yule. Glad to hear you were able to take some time off for celebration and reflection. :)
calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)

[personal profile] calissa 2015-12-27 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

It's worrisome to hear how out-of-whack the weather is everywhere at the moment. I'm glad you got some rain, though, since it sounds like it was much needed.
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[personal profile] onewhitecrow 2015-12-23 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Solstice!

The rain comes with free ice around here.

Also, that is a stunning photo and is making me happy to look at my reading page, so thank you for that.
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calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)

[personal profile] calissa 2015-12-27 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Solstice! I hope the dark times are being kind to you, ice aside.

Ah, thank you! It took a few shots for me to capture because there was a bit of a breeze making things challenging. This season has always been blue and gold for me and the picture captures why.
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[personal profile] bunny_m 2015-12-28 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
It is indeed a gorgeous and evocative photo.
calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)

[personal profile] calissa 2015-12-29 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I've been thinking it might make a good replacement for my current icon for summer.
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[personal profile] moonvoice 2015-12-24 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Blessed Midsummer! :D Also that picture is so spot on for how the season feels to me. The grass stalks empty of grain and the land drying out.

The weather here has been all over the place but in a different way. We've had two days of 40, but Christmas itself will be 29, which is *very* unusual here. Usually in Perth, Christmas week is like...35-40 every day. Climate change is strange!
calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)

[personal profile] calissa 2015-12-27 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Blessed Midsummer to you!

The photo does capture the season nicely, doesn't it? As I said above, Midsummer has always been blue and gold to me, with the endless sky and the dry grass.

Climate change is definitely strange. We don't get the sustained heat quite as much as you do. But when I got up this morning, it was only 9 degrees! I'm finding it a bit too chilly.
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