VERNAL EQUINOX

[Bob23]

Happy Vernal Equinox! As of 12:30 am EST today, we bid old man winter goodbye and welcomed spring into the year of our Lord 2016! How fitting that 1 to 3 inches of snow is forecast for my part of NJ! I think this calls for a toast!!!
Bob23

[Tim Gardner]

Time to burn your sox.

[Eagleye]

Cheers, Gents..................

[BruceW]

Good ol' Vernal!

We have been having spring just long enough for the pollen to start my eyes watering and itching.  I still like it better than winter.

[crazycarl]

WOW!

i didn't realize it was spring already!

now that you mention it, the back yard has been full of song birds and, unfortunately, squirrels.


bob,

joanie and i will be a mere 6 hour drive from stonehenge come the summer solstice.  i'll have to start preparing our druid outfits.


c.c.

[Bob23]

Yes, I heard you were going to cross the pond. I was there many moons ago, 30 maybe. Before the fence around it. Do visit it and give the Druids my best.
Bob23

[NCboater]

I also visited Stonehenge more than 30 years ago, before there was a fence.  I took a picture with my trusty Canon FTb camera and then turned around and took a picture of the sheep in the adjacent field.  For the first, and only, time in its dependable lifetime, the camera failed to advance the film, resulting in an eerie, double exposure picture of sheep floating above stonehenge. I didn't know it had happened until the pictures came back from the processor.   I blame it on the strong supernatural forces in the area...

[crazycarl]

Nc,

If you were there 30 years ago, and bob was there 30 years ago, perhaps the "strong super natural forces" was bob?

C.C.

[NCboater]

Hmmm... distinct possibility.

[Bob23]

NC:
   Sounds like a great photo. Do you still have it? Carl: My super natural forces ain't very strong these days. Kinda like wimpy natural forces! Hahahaha!!!!!

[NCboater]

I still have the photos.  I'll photograph it and post it here, now that I've figured out the process. 

[Bob23]

Wow that would be great. Thanks...
Druid23

[Mas]

Now Druid23, aka Bob23, you didn't throw any virgins into the bog did ya? Know that is kinda popular with the Druid set!

Still looking forward to that Guiness!

[Mas]

Well aside from the ole virgins in the bog kinda thing, we do celebrate and use the sun's position in our home. First of all it is a passive solar home with a sundial to the south that we use to keep track of the time while out working in the south gardens. I have never worn a watch in my lifetime. On a seasonal level both the Vernal and Autumnal equinox's are marked by the peak of a shadow created by a columnar cedar tree as the sun sets behind our mountains. That shadow falls through the center of a west door centered on a bank of windows that faces the west. The shadow then continues to reach into the home through two other aligned openings until it hits a large mirror about 60 feet into the house. That same mirror (ala Egyptian's) sends the sun's rays back through the house just before and after same said equinox events. There are other markers for the two solstice positions.

Must be all that Irish ancestry! Now since we have a chart plotter I have promised myself to balance that technology with learning how to use a sextant. That'll be another story!

[Bob23]

Your house sounds interesting. I've privately emailed all the other members and we'll be there for lunch today!!! Hope you have enough Guinness!!!!
Stonehenge was interesting for me in that no one really knows who built it although we do know it was never finished. And the sheer age of the thing is impressive.
Sounds like a Spring Guinness Celebration may be in order. Let's see" CBSGC.
Bob23