Final Monthly Movie: December

Here is the 12th and final monthly movie! Once in every month of 2019, I went out onto our beach, stood on a specific rock, and took a short, sweeping video of the view from our PowerPoint to the beach south of it.

This is December’s movie, taken, predictably, on the Winter Solstice, right about the time the sun transited between the Coast Range and our southern point.

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Cold Solstice

Today’s Winter Solstice on the homestead was . . . a muted affair.

The weather didn’t quite cooperate for a proper solar transit viewing. I hoped we’d get some clearing at our usual time, or at least be able to track the cloud-covered sun in its path, but no.

winter solstice, Zeiger family homestead

Winter Solstice 2019 (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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