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Ok, so I was not feeling very creative today. However, I am excited about Valentine’s Day for some reason. And, I’m getting tired of my desktop. So I decided to combine these two things and make a simple heart desktop.
It seems that I am so artistically inept that I cannot draw a decent heart or photoshop one from scratch. So, I took a public domain drawing of a heart that I found and manipulated it for my devious ends.
Ta-da! If you like it, feel free to use it. My desktop res is also a little wonky, so you’ll probably want to manipulate it to fit your desktop, unless you too have 1280 x 786.
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February 02nd 3:41 :43 pm by
Marna
Here in Pennsylvania we have a unique method of predicting the arrival of Spring–his name is Punxsutawney Phil, and he’s a groundhog who resides in his burrow in the small western PA town of, yes, Punxsutawney. This is a Pennsylvania German tradition that, I just learned today*, has links to the Celtic/pagan festival of Imbolc, celebrated at the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. On that day the goddess Caileach emerged from her burrow to gather firewood. If the winter were to be prolonged, she made the day sunny to facilitate her wood gathering. If the day were cloudy, she stayed asleep in her burrow. In Phil’ s protocol, if the weather is sunny and he is frightened by his shadow, he retreats to his burrow for six more weeks of winter. An overcast day precludes shadow formation, and Phil’s prognostication then is for an early spring. Various fraternal organizations, known as Grundsow (PA Dutch for groundhog) Lodges, throughout the state gather on February 2 to caucus with Phil and discover his prediction and, one imagines, celebrate the holiday with a pint or two. So here in celebration of Phil and his day, is my haiku for February 2:
Punxsutawney Phil
Frightened of his own shadow–
Six more weeks til Spring.
*Op Ed Piece authored by Daniel Deagler in The Morning Call (www.mcall.com/news/opinion/anotherview/all-deagler2-1.6250535feb01,0,4548461.story)–gotta give credit where credit is due
