Yule - how did/are you spending it?

[Stonehead]

I spent some time lying on wet, muddy grass, carefully angled between half a dozen cow pats, waiting for shots like this…



The Stonehead Circle is just across from our croft and dates back 4,000 years or so. I wanted to get the first burst of light as the sun lifted above the hills on the 22nd and illuminated the stones. There's a few more in a slideshow on my blog. (The neighbours are starting to think I'm even more of a nutter than they previously thought as I've been spotted a few times lying in mud, muck, snow and slush trying to get the right shot.)

[Silver Ether]

Time well spent ....

[Millymollymandy]

Great photo!

[MuddyWitch]

wow Stonehead that is the most beautiful pic...made me quite dewy eyed! Thank-you

MW

[red]

Being pagan is great .. you dont have to follow any instruction on your path. It nature based, connecting with our mother earth and father sky .. seeing properly the world we walk on and try to connect to ...

this is me - and thus i spose it makes me a pagan - but I don't generally call myself that as it makes people think i follow a different set of (alternative)rules- and the thing is, I have my beliefs and I don't follow any organised religion.

We always mark the Solstice - it is the start of our celebrations - we usually cook the ham and have roast ham egg and chips ! - i's what we like, and I save a batch of elderflower champagne from the summer in the freezer, and make it in time for the longest night - seems apt to have a glass of summer then, And we toast the welcome return of the sun, as the days start to draw out after that - things can only improve. When you spend so much time outside, you do pay alot more attention to the turning seasons and day length, and I feel part over something that humans have noticed honoured and celebrated these moments - that show the turning of the year. It is a continuing tradition.

[Silver Ether]

Perfect Red ... and there is no reason to call yourself anything ... other than Red or no one will know who we are talking to ..

I gave some elder flower cordial as Yule gifts ... brings the nice days of summer flooding in through your mouth and nose filling the whole being with loveliness ...