Fall back

A sunny but cold day in Northeast Tennessee; our little snow event had passed by early afternoon yesterday although the higher mountains are white and glistening at their summits.
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The time “fell back” and hour last night; now we will have some extra morning light which I will seldom see but supper won’t come until past dark. It is 126 days until we once more spring forward an hour and it is 44 days until winter solstice 2010. I wish our calendars were based on astronomical factors instead of arbitrary and confusing ideas of men. If it were up to me, the new year would begin the day after winter solstice, spring, summer, and autumn would be as they are now, and winter solstice would mark the end of the year. My calendar would have lunar months—13 0f them—of 28 days each with one month each year having an extra day (leap month) and one month every fourth year having another extra day (leap year). June is my favorite month and it is my idea, therefore June would get the extra days.  The extra month will come between June and July and would be named Kenny for obvious reasons. I like my photographs to be balanced and I like my years to have the same equality. No more “thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; all the rest have thirty-one, save February with twenty-eight clear and twenty-nine each leap year”.
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Have a great Sunday, dear friends.
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