Nothing to do with the Solstice Project but it does have moon in it.
The painting has nothing to do with the Solstice Project. It was acquired last year, and I am renovating (or messing with) it. My efforts, which involve a 90 degree rotation and the addition of several decorative elements, may or may not be an improvement, but they are fun. Today, two days before the vernal equinox, I realized that on every quarter so far this year I have failed to view the sunrise that I set out to see; not through fault or incompetence, but circumstances.
The summer solstice sunrise was obscured by smoke from the dreadful bushfires.
Looking east on the summer solstice 2020
The autumnal equinox was celebrated in London, where I was anxiously waiting to get back to Australia and escape the coronavirus:
Here's a pircture taken from the roof of our hotel on the autumnal (southern hemisphere)
/vernal (northern hemisphere) equinox 2020. But not at sunset or sunrise.
... only managing to set my sights on a sunrise or sunset from my location a few days later:
This photo showing the sunset almost on the equinox.
The winter solstice was cloudy... and I was working early on the actual solstice, and couldn't get to my viewpoint for sunrise. On the next opportunity I couldn't see the sun until about half an hour after it rose, at about half past seven in the morning.
It was VERY cold.
At sunset on the winter equinox I was unavoidably detained by employment at a pre-polling location for the Eden-Monaro federal byelection, but managed to catch the sunset from that viewpoint:
I have high hopes for the fineness of the day in two days' time, and will be securing several interesting pieces of information.
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