from "The Old Farmer's Almanac calculated on a new and improved plan for the Year of our Lord 2012, being Leap Year and the 236th Year of American Independence" (Yankee Publishing Incorporated)
Sunrise 8:10 a.m. Sunset 5:19 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2012
The Moon and Jupiter form a strikingly close holiday conjunction on the 25th, with the orange star Aldebaran dangling below them. The earliest winter since 1896 arrives with the solstice at 6:12 a.m. (eastern time zone) on the 21st.
December 28 is "Holy Innocents" -- the "Full Cold" Moon -- 28th day, 5th hour, 21st minute
Pages 134 - 135 -- "Like mimic meteors the snow in silence out of heaven sifts" -- Frank Dempster Sherman
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