POSTSCRIPT in February 2013

I have been unhappy about the abrupt ending of the project and came up with this idea of finishing off with some Candlemas (Feb 2) which in the old days marked the end of the Christmas season - when the Blessed Mother went for her six-weeks-check-up to the temple where the priests seem to have had medical functions also (remember the leper whose cure had to be 'certified' by him going to 'show himself to the priests)

When I made the experimental luminaria, I had wanted to make a big show of them in the front garden (seeing that the solar lights which I originally wanted to use didn't work, possibly because the winter daylight wasn't enough to charge them!)

But the darkness overtook me, and I didn't do anything.
A few weeks later I remembered Candlemas. I was feeling a good bit better and got down to the task which proved enjoyable after all.

So at long last on last Saturday, I galvanized myself into lighting them.
The high wind blew them out, almost as soon as I put them in place.


In the end, I brought them into the porch, and enjoyed double value when they were reflected in the patio door.






By the time I went to bed, only one was still lighting ... that's what I get for buying 'bargain nightlights'









In the cold light of next morning, only the empties were left, still reflected in the glass.