Kingfisher and the Colonel
Hungry Cleo and Romeo
Who me eat your sunflower
Let’s Go out for donuts in style

Folks are beginning posting their favorite holiday food ideas,which I haven’t gotten around to, but I was inspired to put together this collection of “hunger game” snapshots when came upon this Edsel in a parking lot yesterday. By the way I was going to the Dollar Store next door. They have great decorations and containers for Paper whites.

If you start now they could be blooming by Christmas if you put them in a dark room. And if you want to know when it is dark here is what Wikipedia has to say about the setting of the sun. They call it twilight.

Paperwhites
Paper whites just putting down roots

The Three calcification of Sunset or Twilight are: Civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight. The Sun is shown to scale.[2]

Twilight is defined according to the solar elevation angle θs, which is the position of the geometric center of the sun relative to the horizon. There are three established and widely accepted subcategories of twilight: civil twilight (brightest), nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight (darkest).[1]    

Why? Sailors, who navigated by the stars, needed to know when it would be dark enough to see the first star. Usually Venus or Mercury. If you’re still reading you deserve a star. Happy Wednesday!

Thanks for stopping by.

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    1. ***** Five stars for you Marilyn 🙂 I use to teach so I do know how short attention spans can be.
      Sure put them in a dark warm place till they have good roots and shoots then bring them out into the light and watch them bloom. I’m concerned the ones I started before Thanksgiving will be done blooming before Christmas, Good luck.

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  2. That’s amazing….I’ve never heard of that distinction.
    And…looking at your subtitle for your blog…I’m in a class in downtown Berkeley right now…..beauty and wisdom…accessing both…..great combination! 🙂

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