doogiewray ([info]doogiewray) wrote,
@ 2007-12-24 08:42:00
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Entry tags:octopus, photos, solstice fire

"In the midst of Winter, we find within ourselves the Invincible Summer"
It's been two years since the last Winter Solstice celebration and this one was very windy and rainy, but, still, more than sixty people came together to share food, company, singing and yet another bonfire (though only about twenty people came outside into the tempest to stand around the fire).

The drums and other instruments stayed inside (though the bagpiper played under a distant porch and one (of two) basoonist(s) joined me in several pennywhistle duets at the fire).


The Fire Starts



Warming Up


Sparks (and raindrops on my lens)


When the wind and rain and cold had driven everyone inside, I stayed a bit for one last look


A bit of last-minute foolishness (I had forgotten to bring my Solsticeman mask and Earth Day cape).

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[info]benhimself
2007-12-25 05:09 am UTC (link)
That second to last picture is fantastic.

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vas?
(Anonymous)
2008-01-10 09:34 pm UTC (link)
после такой красноречивости, вы были пораженной сурдинкой?

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Re: vas?
[info]doogiewray
2008-01-11 08:45 pm UTC (link)
Well, Babelfish translates the Russian reply (above) as: "After such an eloquence, you were the struck mute?"

(Babelfish couldn't translate "Vas?")

I don't know what to say!

Reminds me, though, of the Serpent in Milton's Paradise Lost when he was about to tempt Eve:

As when of old som Orator renound In ATHENS or free ROME, where Eloquence Flourishd, since mute, to som great cause addrest, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue, Somtimes in highth began, as no delay Of Preface brooking through his Zeal of Right. So standing, moving, or to highth upgrown The Tempter all impassiond thus began.

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