Dear Sunwatchers,
[This was written, and I thought published, on January 31. Sometimes WordPress has a mind of its own! Sorry about the confusion which perhaps some of you experienced. And now this is in the February archive instead of January where it belongs and it precedes two other short posts made February 1, so please scroll down after reading this one!]
There’s been a lot of progress in the past few days. Today sunrise was at 7:46. The sun set at 17:06. We are just shy of one hour later for sunset (8 more minutes to go!). We have gained 22 minutes in the morning already! I always feel that once the sun is setting after 5 p.m. we can relax again.
I’m afraid I don’t have any really spiffy photos of the local progress toward spring this week. I do see lots of trees in blossom. The kind that make allergy-sufferers suffer. So watch out–here comes the pollen.
I got interested in old photos this weekend and spent my most productive time making them digital.
A couple of cheery items from my distant past (in a place beyond Hope and the Continental Divide).
These are tiny little flowers and I think the photo is from the Bruce Peninsula but memory and record-keeping lack perfection. I don’t like it as a record of the flowers but I like its decorative quality.
If anyone has read Jane Urquhart’s newest book, Sanctuary Line, you will have read of this phenomenon.
Both photos taken in 1979! No, I wasn’t knee-high to a grasshopper then. But I owned a camera distant in memory now. The Monarchs gather at Point Pelee before crossing Lake Erie, the first major physical barrier to their flight to Mexico.
I included these photos with the thought that they would encourage you to think of sun, sunshine, progress, lengthening days, and all good things unfolding.
Until next time, when I hope to have some local and seasonal photos of interest, I remain,
Your bulletineer and friend,
Daphne Sunwatchers.
P.S. This apparently didn’t get published on the 31st of January as I thought!












