Minutes before midnight tonight the sun will have tilted the farthest away from the earth as it is going to get for a year and we will be in midwinter, or the beginning of winter, and for that minute or so of the Winter Solstice we will have the shortest day and the longest night.
However, it is 74 degrees here and about 100 percent humidity so it sure doesn’t feel like Winter. I look at these images of Europe socked under snow, and New York is in the thirties, and it is icy and snowing in Chicago, and here we sit in the Gulf South, smug as bugs. Yep, this is the time of year when you are damn glad that Southern Santa is not only a black man with a tattoo, but also wears a tank top and shorts.