Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The break in summer heat continues this week, though there is still not much break in the rain. We have almost had the entire average August precipitation in the first week. We will undoubtedly pass average by the end of this week and probably blaze right on to the average for an entire summer. Given… Continue reading The Daily: 7 August 2023
Back in the in the last bits of the 20th century, I was involved in geology. I was basically a glorified volcanologist, but I used radiogenic isotopes to trace material movement in the mantle. So there was mathematical modeling in what I did. And there were isotopic analysis labs. Furthermore, I was in New Mexico… Continue reading The Daily: 3 August 2023
Lammas It's the probably not-terribly-ancient festival of bread, Lammas, Hlaf-mas, Loaf Mass. This holiday is possibly an English variant on the Irish first fruits and fair festival of Lughnasadh, but compacted into one day and generally lacking any ritual or narrative. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, churches in East Anglia constructed elaborate… Continue reading The Daily: 2 August 2023
Today at 2:31pm the Hay Moon is full. This ninth moon of the year is also called the Midsummer Moon, but in 2023 the lunations are so very late relative to the solar year and so very close to the end of their periods that it doesn't make sense to name this one for the… Continue reading The Daily: 1 August 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 