Archive for January 8th, 2008

Winter solstice on the Thames

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After the whirl on the London Eye, my little family of typists took a walk along the Thames River on the shortest day of the year. By mid afternoon the air was darkening and the sky began to ripen into a rich crimson that cast a reddish glow over everything and turned objects into silhouettes. [...]