Joe's Winter Journey in July

For the curious- Here are the sunrises and sunsets that Joe shared mapped out along his travel route through South Africa
7/3/18 PM Western Cape, South Africa: sunset 5:39 PM from the Shosholoza Premier train enroute to Johannesburg from Cape Town
7/4/18 AM Northern Cape, South Africa: 7:27 AM sunrise from the Shosholoza Premier train enroute to Johannesburg from Cape Town
7/4/18 5:31 PM Sunset in Welverdiend South Africa
7/9/18 7:57 AM Sunrise at Gaarona Valley Lodge Heidelberg, SA
7/12/18 Sunrise 6:37 AM at Kruger National Park Mpumalanga, SA
7/12/18 Sunset 5:22PM. Kruger National Park Mpumalanga, SA (photo and phone info)

duh! South Africa-- south of the equator

Even after so many posts from Joe in the past few days, it only just dawned on me because of the relatively early sunset times and late sunrises, that he is SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR!!! (2917 km = 1812 miles).

Winter.
And only 800 miles closer than Warren's Winter Solstice 6/21 post from Australia (4209 km = 2616 miles)
Happy Wintering down there!!

Invitation to the senses

July 9, 2018. 7:57 AM
Sunrise at Gaarona Valley Lodge Heidelberg, South Africa

from Joe P. on his journey across South Africa. For some reason, the sounds and air and heat are almost there when I look at the photo-- amazing!

Sunset on the same train

July 4, 2018. 5:31 PM
Sunset in Welverdiend South Africa


— Joe P.

Sunrise on a long train ride

July 4, 2018. 7:38 AM
Northern Cape, South Africa

Sunrise from the Shosholoza Premier train enroute to Johannesburg from Cape Town


— Joe P.

Overnight train- first bookend

July 3, 2018. Sunset 5:39 PM
Western Cape, South Africa

sunset from the Shosholoza Premier train enroute to Johannesburg from Cape Town.
- Joe P.

more steel city melting skies

July 2, 2018. Sunset 8:54 PM


Pittsburgh sunset captured by cousin matt
- Joe P.

Sun on the Eastern Horizon-- what can it mean?!?!

June 26, 2018. Sunrise??
Stone Harbor, NJ


Thanks Linda!
from Joe Pokrifka

The second longest day

June 22, 2018. Sunset 8:33 PM
Pescadero, CA.


The second longest day of sunlight, Liz and I ring it down along the coast. A rare and wonderful day. We had just sat through 1½ cycles of “Forest (for a thousand years)", a surround sound installation in the woods at UC Santa by Janet Cardiff and Bures. The sounds were so beautifully recorded and convincingly presented, we were transported.

Summer Solstice- over the top!!

June 21, 2018. Sunset 8:34 PM
Garden of Memory at the Chapel of the Chimes. Oakland, CA

The most exuberant dailybell Solstice sunset ringing at the annual Garden of Memory event- ever!

Now to work on the ending…

Many thanks everyone who contributed to this glorious moment: to the Cardew Choir for their incredible 4-hour performance of Pauline Oliveros’ inspirational Heart Chant. Their long tones have been echoed and magnified by an inspired audience throughout the space, adding a magnificent chorus to the bells. To the enthusiastic members of the public who brought, bells, keys and their voices. Special thanks to the dailybell team (Jenny Holland, Vangie King, Julie Moon, Adria Otte, Alan Phillips, Wendy Reid, Norman Tuck) for distributing cards and bells and information prior to the performance. Wonderful video footage from Miriam Jacobs. And finally, to Sarah Cahill who started the Garden of Memory so many years ago and the New Music Bay Area team for pulling off this entire magnificent event every summer Solstice.

Winter Solstice Sunrise in June--

Hi Brenda!
While we were celebrating the longest day, my friend Warren Burt sent this as a reminder of what is to come...

Winter Solstice sunrise. Taken from V/Line commuter bus in Trentham, Victoria, Australia at about 7:55 am on Thursday morning 21 June, 2018. Frost on the meadows - minus 2 C (28.4 F), clear morning - first non-rainy day in about 2 weeks.

Cheers,

Warren


Thank you dear Warren!

A very happy Birthday

June 15, 2018. Sunset 8:31 PM
Pescadero, CA. Memorial Park.



Thank you fellow campers for a fabulous off the grid No Service relaxing birthday. What a relief!!!  Here we are in the Redwoods just off the coast in Pescadero.

Sunset at the end of this Memorial Holiday

May 28, 2018. Sunset 8:23 PM
San Francisco, CA.

Remembering with compassion those who have died in all the wars.

Ramadan sunrise

May 17, 2018. Sunrise 5:57 AM
San Francisco, CA.

So many birds this morning! Ramadan Mubarak.

22 years of Sunsets ...

May 13, 2018. Sunset 8:10 PM
San Francisco, CA.

Remembering my mom on Mother's day -- It's been 22 years worth of sunsets since my mother passed away-- I dug around many boxes of photos to find one with all of us in it. Here's my young mother- with me (spaced out in the back), my sister and brother in 1965. I miss my mother and brother and am so grateful for my dear sister.

Moving into Spring with Joe's friends and cousins!

Thank you Joe. Sometimes, you are the only keeping the photos coming, and they are fabulous!
Please don't STOP!!

Here are April's offerings:

April 22, 2018. Sunset 7:20 PM
from cousin Arlene...Red Rock Canyon, NV...


April 7, 2018. Sunset 7:30 PM
Lakewood, CO.

From my cousin Roseanne in SC. Rise or set Rose? Very nice.

April 3, 2018. Sunrise 7:11 AM
Check Tom’s sunrise view in Indialantic, FL 😮

Easter Morning. April Fools Day.

April 1, 2018. Sunrise 6:39 AM.
Miami Beach, Florida.

Happy Easter and chag Pesach sameach everyone! Have a blessed day wherever you may be.

Winter Elsewheres

Joe has friends who’ve traveled to some lovely places at the end of March and captured some moments to carry us through the last grasp of winter. Many thanks!!!

March 26, 2018. Sunset 7:18 PM
Wow!! Thanks Nitin (sunset at Lookout Mountain. Golden, CO)



March 25, 2018. Sunrise 6:57 AM
My friend Razvan shared this sunrise at takeoff from PHL.


March 24, 2018. Sunset 6:44 PM
My friend West shares another spectacular shot of the sun... after a rainy day in Hawaii.


March 21, 2018. Sunset 6:43 PM
From my friend West ….aloha from Hawaii


- posted by Joe Pokrifka‎

Happy Equilux and Saint Patrick's Day!

March 17, 2018. Sunrise and Sunset 7:04 AM/PM
Brooklyn, NY/Jersey City, NJ


A balanced day with green beer.
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are already tripping towards the light! Happy Spring <3

The Tiniest Glimmer

March 5, 2018. Sunset 5:51 PM.
Brooklyn, NY.

There. Between the buildings.
Despite being 3.5º S and 2º W, the sun sets only a minute later in Brooklyn than it does in Jefferson. The 2-minute gain at the end of the day is a wonderfully insistent creeping towards the Equinox. Only 2 more weeks until Spring!

Tiny flakes. Big blanket

March 2, 2018. Sunset 5:48 PM.
Jefferson, NY.
—Big snow

View from Nancy and Jackson’s kitchen- smoothing out the edges of cars, furniture, bushes and a watchful sculpture population.

End of February... How can this be?

February 23, 2018. 6:01 PM
Wrightsville BeAch sunset over the sound. North Carolina

Carolina view care of my friend Cliff.

- from Joe Pokrifka

Caladesi Island winter paradise...

Caladesi Island, FL...courtesy of my friend Chelsea...
From 2/19/18 sunset ?--- 6:16 PM
-- from Joe Pokrifka

I'd like to go there... now...

a wild ride

February 1, 2018. Sunset 5:17 PM.
Lambertville, NJ.

A quiet moment (or an exhausted one). Three weeks after my father’s dog knocked him down and fractured his pelvis, Carol was hit by a snowplow (walking the same sweet puppy). Short story: Everyone is on the mend. Long story: Let your imagination run wild— now do it again—and again…

Morning fire on the river

January 27, 2018. Sunrise 7:32 AM.

Beautiful Pittsburgh sunrise. Picture by cousin Barb


– Joe Pokrifka

19050 Sky on fire

January 27, 2018. Sunset 5:13 PM.


Winter sunset: Lansdowne, PA

- photo by Nancy Moore

First sunrise of 2018- creeping into the light

January 1, 2018. Sunrise 7:22 AM.
Lambertville, NJ.


The first one of the year. Not much different than the night before- only lighter and a few degrees warmer.

Happy 2018!

Midnight. New Year’s Eve. December 31, 2017
Lambertville, NJ.


Outside the Senior citizen apartment complex on Main Street in Lambertville, NJ. I love listening to the year flip over – This is an especially gentle one.

December 2017 Solstices and Equinoxes

Taking part of the project Dailybell by Brenda Hutchinson, CoroDelantal and Coro Fulbright of Madrid gather to ring our bells celebrating solstices and equinoxes during the 3 minutes that the sunset lasts at Debod’s Temple in Madrid.
- Sonia Megías See and Hear HERE

the final sunset of the year

December 31, 2017. Sunset 4:42 PM.
Flemington, NJ.


The empty halls and beds are not as bleak as they may seem at first glance. Everyone that could move was at a little party at the end of the hall, including my father, who was the only guy in the room. Festive and sweet.

Observing this Winter Solstice

December 21, 2017. Sunrise 7:16 AM.
Brooklyn, NY.


Cold blast first thing in the morning on the darkest day of the year. Tomorrow will be less dark for all of us in the Northern Hemisphere (at least as far as the sun is concerned). Blessings and hope to all as our days ahead expand into the light in every possible way.

East river ablaze

December 18, 2017. Sunset 4:30 PM.
Brooklyn NY


Still from video by Ginger Hutchinson-

F L O R I D AHHHHHHHHHH

December 6, 2017. Sunset 5:30 ish

from Ella at the U—

post from Joe—

slow fade

December 1, 2017. Sunset 4:51 PM.
San Francisco, CA.

Catching the last light of December’s first sunset with my friend Thea. Only 3 minutes earlier than a week ago, the rate of shrinking days is slowing down.

Happy Thanksgiving

November 23, 2017. Sunset 4:53 PM. (ooo so early).
Albany, CA.

Counting my blessings as I think of everyone here today and remembering those who are not. Love and deep appreciation to you all.

Merrily we roll along...

November 23, 2017. 4:43 PM

From my friend Merri...sunset somewhere between Philadelphia and Elizabethtown

-- from Joe

Sunrise Sunset on All Saints

November 1, 2017.

Both posts from Joe P-- Thanks Joe!

Sunrise 7:29 AM in Philadelphia...from my friend Tom...



Sunset 5:59 PM DEN, and rush hour traffic

Happy Halloween you amazing beasts

October 31, 2017. Sunset 6:12 PM.
Oakland, CA.

Getting ready at the zoo!

Up Up and Away- early in the day

7:24-7:25 AM at SFO 10/30/17


—from Lynne Piade

Another good morning

October 28, 2017. Sunrise 7:40 AM.

My friend Paul says good morning to all from Shanksville, PA -- from Joe P.

Ahhhhhh perfect beach sunrise

October 16, 2016. Almost sunrise.


Sun peeking out at 6am at myrtle beach sc. nice and warm out and ocean water was warm as toast yesterday. (sunrise coming up at 7:21 AM) –from Dad and Carol

Smoky Sunset by the Sea

October 12, 2017. Sunset 6:37 PM
Sunset Blvd. San Francisco


Driving home from work with the smoky sunset over the ocean out the side window of my car. The air here is so bad we wear masks inside the house. And we are the lucky ones. Sending love and condolences to everyone up north who has suffered such loss and devastation.

upside down sunset

October 10, 2017. Sunset at Papineau Lake, Canada-- courtesy of my friend Doug...Wow!

--from Joe P

Sunset Post Referendum

October 4, 2017. Sunset 19:14 in Barcelona 4 days after the referendum.

- from Barbara

A trio from Joe's friends and family

September 28, 2017. Sunrise 6:49 AM
NJ shore sunrise this past Sunday courtesy of friend of a friend Fred Kern. Nice!

September 29, 2017. Sunset 6:47PM
Philadelphia from the Sky Garten on the 51st floor.

September 30, 2017. Sunset 7:16 PM (so much later!!)
Fiery sunset sky in SC courtesy of my cousin Roseanne...nice!!

Happy Equilux

September 26, 2017. Sunrise and Sunset 7:01.
Equilux in San Francisco, CA.

Happy Equilux from this latitude! You can check to see when the actual day of light and dark balance occur where you are.

Equinox Celebration at the Conservatory of Flowers

Sunset 7:08 PM. San Francisco, CA
October 22, 2017
Rae Diamond and the Long Tone Choir join Dan Gottwald's series at the Conservatory of Flowers to celebrate the Fall Equinox.

August Collection from Joe and Joe's family, friends and neighbors

August 2017.


Composite of sunrises and sunsets from all over the US- It looks like August!


This is so fabulous-- Thank you Joe!!

Joe closes the month!

August 29, 2017. Sunset 7:38 PM.
Jenkintown, PA.

Tonight's sunset in Jenkintown. The sky is burning in the rain.

-- from Joe Pofrika’s neighbor, Xianggan Gao

sidewalk sunset

August 27, 2017. Sunset 7:47 PM.
San Francisco, CA.

The end of the evening at the Soundsmiths auction for the Center for New Music in San Francisco.

thanks for the lovely camera work by David Samas

Lucky dogs!

August 24, 2017 8:25 AM.
Madrid, Spain


Good morning dawn Brenda command you today
walking with my perritas MAGA And KUKI.
GOOD DAY
HUGS
Sent from my phone with Windows 10
From: Rosario Cruz Beneyto

good singers on the lake

August 23, 2017. Sunset 8:09 PM.


at Dibrova Lake near Sunset at Dibrova Lake near Brighton, Michigan I recorded this to hear the cranes- share with dailybell if you like!

-- from Maria Mykolenko

another cousin heard from

August 16, 2017. Sunrise 6:32 AM.


Sunrise at Topsail Island NC from my cousin Melanie...
Wow!

--from Joe P.

A family affair

August 14, 2017.


Sunset 8PM-ish. Coral Gables FL.

(University of Miami)

Sunset 8:20 PM.

My cousin Matt offers this pic. Wow! Pittsburgh August sunset.

--from Joe P.

Goodbye Nick

August 12, 2017. Sunset 8:04 PM.
Berkeley, CA.



After an afternoon of stories, songs and incredible tenderness, we all say goodbye to Nick Bertoni. Anyone who knew Nick might not recognize the super cleared up Tinkers Workshop where we are gathered. I count myself among those who were honored to have spent time with Nick and were touched by his generosity and huge heart.

Joe on the move- 2 sunrises from Florida today

August 12, 2017.

Sunrise 6:11 AM. Volusia, FL.

Nice pic from my friend Dot...


Sunrise 6:25 AM. Palatka FL

(Southbound on the auto train)

-- from Joe