The garden one hour after the Galveston, TX Winter Solstice which occurred at 11:11AM CST.  It is cloudy today, so we cannot see the shadow marking the lowest point that the sun goes at  noon.  The photo was taken at about 12:20 PM, close enough to noon to have been interesting.

 Winter Solstice narcissus, which will bloom one place or another over the coming weeks. Narcissus in the background  beat out the grass.   The Narcissus is darker green than the grass to the right.   The multi-colored green plant in the  foreground is  variegated ginger, which grew well before Ike.  The grass seemed to protect its roots, so that it is now flourishing for the first time in over five years.  I will check on the edibility of the roots.  I think that I know it is edible.

 The narcissus around this cypress comes up later than some of the other bulbs.  This may be becaus I was placing coffee grounds around the cypress tree, and it raised up the level of the soil (fact), which may be the reason that the narcissus comes up later, (the kind of opinion that we could call a hypothesis).

. Dense narcissus around the live oak.

This summer solstice gives an opportunity to benchmark some of the plant progress in the kitchen garden, and the front  landscape garden.  It was a rainy 68 2/3 degrees Fahrenheit today.  Weeds will begin to grow again, soon.