DECEMBER 21, 2009

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

WINTER SOLSTICE

Columbus Circle in New York City on December 20, 2009.

Sofia, Bulgaria on December 18, 2009.

An Orthodox priest walks in snow in front of frescoes of Mykhaylo Gold Domes Cathedral in Kievon December 21, 2009, after heavy snow fall in Ukrainian capital.

The ‘Loch Ness Monster’ appears - in snow form - on Brighton Beach, Brighton, southern England, on December 18, 2009.

A deer pauses in Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, England on December 18, 2009

Snow covers the a decorated tree in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009

Snow-covered gondolas in Venice's lagoon, Italy on December 19, 2009.

Celebrants engage in druidic rituals outside the Stone Circle at Stonehenge, southern England as Druids celebrate the Winter Solstice, Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009

A squirrel leaps over a thick blanket of snow while moving from tree to tree near the Vietnam Veterans Memorialon the National Mall December 21, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Central Park in New York on December 21, 2009

A deer lifts its head, sitting in the snow in Richmond Park on December 16, 2009 in London, England

The South Downs National Park on December 18, 2009 near Coldharbour, England.

An artist shapes a snow sculpture prior to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province,China on December 18, 2009.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students on Bascom Hill December 9, 2009

A paperboy falling from his bike after snowfall in London, England on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009.

A woman walks through the snow outside the seaside town of Ballycastle on the North Antrim coast, Northern Ireland on December 20, 2009

High winds whip snow off the western peaks of Mount Hood, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, as seen from Government Camp, Oregon, where rescuers were waiting to begin their search for two missing climbers. The rescue mission was later suspended, the climbers assumed to have died on the mountain

An assistant of a street photographer dressed as a tiger - the Chinese calendar sign for 2010 - helps a council worker to clear snow in a bid to warm himself on Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine on December 22, 2009

An aerial view taken from the new "Kandahar-Express" ski-lift shows the snow-covered forest at the southern German Ski region of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on December 18, 2009.

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