last night (it will be even further in the past by the time you read this) horsemouth became interested in nancy holt's piece of land art far out in the deserts of utah the sun tunnels.
as you know horsemouth has a great interest in things calibrated to solstices - stonehenge, newgrange, maeshowe etc. and here is something (an X in cast concrete pipes) calibrated to both the summer and winter solstices. and people go to visit them. (even though they are way out in the desert).
horsemouth likes manhattanhenge too - there is a discussion of related phenomena in other cities - where the grid system is aligned with sunrise or sunset on particular dates. the main street of milton keynes is aligned with midsummer and midwinter days for example.
we are rapidly coming up to imbolc/st brigid's day (candlemass/ groundhog day) - the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox (though what day to celebrate it on is a matter of some confusion).
tonight on tv the thirty-nine steps (1978 robert powell version) - horsemouth did not watch it (but then he saw it in the cinema as a kid). he will have watched the ripping yarns spoof upon it - whinfrey's last case.
tonight it's gonna rain (and be windy apparently).
and in the morning a new week.
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