These were not root cellars, they maintain; they were calendars, mostly lunar, designed to catch the first rays of the winter solstice and honor the rebirth of the new year.
IT'S a warm June day in Capitola, Calif., a little coastal town just south of Santa Cruz, and the beach is teeming with life: junior lifeguards in red swimsuits going through their training exercises, mothers watching their toddlers at work in the sand with shovels and pails, teenage girls stretched out on blankets trying to capture the first rays of the summer sun.
Allowing yourself the time to catch the first rays of the early spring sun.
Three figures clad in black wetsuits emerge over dunes as the first rays of a crisp winter's day reach Sydney's Narrabeen beach on Australia's east coast.
When the first rays of morning sun bathe downtown Burbank on Easter, Christmas or New Year's Day, they illuminate streets that are quiet, peaceful and, for the most part, desolate.
On two days of the year (about February 22 and October 22), the first rays of the morning sun penetrate the whole length of the temple and illuminate the shrine in its innermost sanctuary.
As the first rays of the sun touched the 6,656-meter 6,656-meterresh snow was blown in a gust of wind, and wrapeakg the sacred mountain in a white veil.
Material from The Cry of Love was re-released in 1997 as First Rays of the New Rising Sun, along with the other tracks that Mitchell and Kramer had wanted to include.
Sometimes, early in the spring when the first rays of sunshine warm back and soil alike, there is something strangely soothing about hand weeding.
