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(DIR) Post #Ad2sM3e2zGhqKK1VU8 by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-10T15:58:43Z
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(This will be a thread: next days will be replies) It won't surprise anyone I'm late for #ArtAdventCalendar 😆 I had an unexpected day off work yesterday (back at it today!) so got some editing done. With the theme, I've edited a touch more than usual. I'm aiming to use a photo *from* each day as that day's image (no photos Dec 3, so doubled on the 4th!). Here are days 1-4 #WinterPictures #December #GetOutside #Landscape #garden #nature #Alberta #Canada #Frostodon #fog #commute #CountryLiving
(DIR) Post #Ad2sM6lbNdX20ca5B2 by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-10T16:17:09Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar see previous for preamble. Here are days 5 and 6 on the #farm #Saule / #Sun is low in sky as #Solstice approaches and #GreatMother #Mara showing some of her cloak of #green as a reminder of other seasons! #animist #pagan #Latvian #Alberta #Mosstodon #WinterPictures #nature #GetOutside
(DIR) Post #Ad2sM8KjYVECrs1eZk by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-12T05:15:13Z
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Cut a bit of firewood today (involved a little wandering with camera time), and cooked a birthday meal for my friend ( a)curry red lentils with tofu b)mashed potatoes c)mildly chile spiced broccoli with black beans, lots of caramelised onion and yellow pepper involved in a and c!Now for posting and photo editing!#ArtAdventCalendar I may yet catch up, but it won't be with this post for Day 7- featuring afternoon #WinterLight the day after #rain and #snow #WinterPictures #Frostodon #Alberta
(DIR) Post #Ad2sM9RrPUWUKGMrK4 by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-12T05:26:00Z
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There was beautiful light that day, so I couldn't choose just one photo: I made a 2 part collage to keep it as 1 image, but decided these photos deserve to be seen separately..lol We had a significant rainfall the previous evening (in December, in Alberta!), followed by snow- luckily not too much ice (lots of glitter though) but snow stuck to wet freezy things. Next day was warm enough for some things to melt in the sun, but snow and bits of ice left in many places. #Solstice draws near! #pagan
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMFMPQfjAf5raeu by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-12T06:01:45Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Days 8 a #commute shot from the car of a dense stand of Tamarack ? Larix laricina and spruce and 9 pre #sunset across the neighbours' with #cows and #RockyMountains #WinterPictures #snow #CountryLiving #Alberta #BorealForest #Frostodon #GetOutside #SeasonalRhythms #SnowMother #animist
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMHGoKSRCaJG9D6 by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-13T01:00:56Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day10 #WinterLight a mostly sunny morning #commute East of #RockyMountainHouse #Alberta a chilly morning, low -15C (not cold for this time of year, about average, we've been mostly above) would have been a few degrees higher at least on the way to work, hit a high just above freezing. #WinterPictures #December #CountryLiving #horses #Frostodon
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMJg3NZom3B5Kpk by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-14T20:20:27Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 #LeafMother has left some colour from Autumn (months ago!) hanging bright against the #snow with a drop of frozen #rain and inscribed with cryptic insect prayers to the #GreatMother #Goddess! and Day 12 #Saule #Sun is nearly at the maximum of her turn to the south, yet her rays still brighten #Winter days, even if the warmth is mostly in our hearts! #Alberta #December #BorealForest #WinterPictures #CountryLiving #animist #Latvian
(DIR) Post #Ad2sML7O1RHAWEsg4m by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-15T16:12:57Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13 Cool #clouds and a #presunset glow all afternoon, as we often have in mid-winter. Still mostly above average temps, and moderate snowfall, though we got a few more sticky inches last night (our normal #snow at this time of year should be dry! 'warmer' winters are not all positive) #Alberta #BorealForest #sky #WinterPictures #CountryLiving
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMMIPdvgqAj2ztw by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-16T05:12:23Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 Since reading more about her by chance, recently, I've been thinking a bit about the #Baltic #Latvian #goddess #Ragana She seems more to stem from the primordial nature worship of Old Europe (the ancient pre-Indo-Europeans). (more to come on this some day soon). She's associated with birch trees in particular, so now I think of her whenever I see them! Next year's catkins on this one, I think? #pagan #BorealForest #CommuneWithNature #WinterPictures #Alberta
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMO03JABxSMTMYq by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-17T05:09:24Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15 Still Higher temps- such as we're still having mostly- can mean wet heavy snow, freezing rain etc-like this sticky stuff on trees, roads etc-luckily not enough for the weight to be a problem (we 'normally only have dry powder snow this time of year!) #WinterPictures #Alberta #landscape #December
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMOthyEiAEyVoJM by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-18T05:52:45Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16 Forgot my camera on the way to work on Saturday (that almost *never* happens!) so no photos from the commute on the 16th, *so* I took some indoor night shots of #decorations instead! Some might call them #ChristmasDecorations including the person who put them up, but to me they are #Solstice decorations! #pagan #StillLife #photography #blue #December
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMPrcNUdLEmXegy by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-20T00:11:15Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17 that was Sunday, so, a work day and so the pic is from the moving car on the #commute #BorealForest #Alberta #WinterPictures #landscape #CountryLiving I was talking a little to @richardgrant a while back when an earlier photo in this thread showed some Tamarack / Larix laricina ( I had a question mark on the id then, just because with snow/frost/ice covering the trees, it was hard to see what trees were there). This view shows Tamaracks again--continued:
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMQyOFne2g4iZt2 by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-21T20:02:05Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 but I'm posting #December 21 so Blessed and Happy Solstice to all! This date is what all the mid-winter holy days/festivals are really about in the Northern Hemisphere - Sun has reached the maximum of her southward journey, and will begin the slow return. We celebrate the anticipated return of #light but also should take some time to reflect on the darkness: #sleep #blood #soil #death #regeneration #SeasonalRhythms #pagan #animistHappy mid-summer to Southern friends!
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMS2KIeO5yZZEf2 by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-20T00:15:33Z
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a large wetland area with Tamaracks, quite far from the road. In front, there's a row of small trees that may have been planted, along a fenceline- can't tell from that distance, even zoomed, but they might be pines, which are very uncommon here until you get closer to the foothills. Stands like this with many smallish trees are common, since large trees were wiped out sometimes in the early decades of 1900s by a (sawfly?) epidemic and are just recovering extensively in recent decades!
(DIR) Post #Ad2sMSzAlrSWv56ENs by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-21T20:09:28Z
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Winter Solstice is associated with #Ragana (Latvian sp) in #Baltic tradition - Indo-European gods + Christianity have reduced this nature deity to a hag #witch (often in a negative way, not the modern reclaimed use of the word!) of wild places and dubious ways- I'll be exploring ideas restoring her primal attributes, and will be thinking of her essence as a symbol of natural forces/cycles this Solstice day! eg- She may represent natural darkness, and essential balance to the light of #Saule /Sun
(DIR) Post #Ad4uDBTRtNEDZZFBDM by cohanf@mastodon.online
2023-12-22T16:00:50Z
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 this was taken a couple of days before the Solstice, but the #sun #WinterLight is a major focus for many weeks over winter (okay, maybe I'm always obsessed with light-not so much pure blinding sun, but the effects as she lowers, peeks out through trees and clouds, etc!). Here it was mid afternoon, just a couple of hours from sunset, a little below freezing (well above average!) with sun and sun dog! #WinterPictures #Alberta #CountryLiving #SunDog #snow #December