Happy Winter Solstice 2025!

Today is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Tomorrow, the sun begins its return to the northern hemisphere.

Welcome back Sol Invictus.

Happy Winter Solstice 2024!

Today is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Tomorrow, the sun begins its return to the northern hemisphere.

Welcome back Sol Invictus.

Happy Winter Solstice 2023!

Today is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Tomorrow, the sun begins its return to the northern hemisphere.

Welcome back Sol Invictus.

The Waning Days of Summer 2023

Happy Winter Solstice 2022!

Today is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Tomorrow, the sun begins its return to the northern hemisphere.
Welcome back Sol Invictus.

BEAUTY: Painting For Winter--Sam Vokey

I can almost feel the cold air in my nose when I look at these lovely, evocative, snowy paintings by Sam Vokey. He captures the early sunsets and blue light of the winter months perfectly...

Top to bottom: Backbay Water twilight; Christmas Eve; Holiday Skate; January Sunset; Newbury Street Snowfall; State Street Snowfall; Twilight: Evening Walk On Boston Common; Winter Sun Setting Boston

https://samvokey.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Bradley Hankey

Bradley Hankey's color-saturated images of southern California at beautiful sunsets or glorious sunrises are lyrical and delicious. But it's his aerial shots of Santa Monica and the coast at night that make me swoon--I love seeing lights at night from the window of a jet like that. It's so lovely and provokes profound thoughts about how man manipulates the environment (we can actually light up the night when the sun is not shining) and the nature of reality in our universe (all is darkness unless you are near a star)...

https://bradleyhankey.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Alena Aenami

Just look at the colors Alena Aenami uses in her images of sunsets and evening skies. Astounding! What skill to be able to conjure up the light and intense glow of a red sun on the horizon.

Top to bottom: 7 p.m.; Any Minute Now; Away In Silence; Draw Breath; Dreamer; Endless; From This Moment; Horizon; Sketches 001; Sketches 003 Nightfall; Sketches 003; Walls; You

https://www.instagram.com/aenami.art