In the garden of Tudor Place, the house museum in Georgetown, an 18th Century sundial is framed by a saying that begins: “With warning hand I mark time’s rapid flight.” Except, it doesn’t. Or not with ...

A sundial discovered outside a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings may be one of the world's oldest ancient Egyptian sundials, scientists say. Dating to the 19th dynasty, or the 13th century B.C., the ...

Seattle's best little oxymoron, the Denny Regrade sundial, has been put where the sun don't shine. Sort of. The Marvin Black memorial sundial, erected a couple of decades ago to honor the city's ...

Sundials are the modern gardener’s silent partner in a conspiracy to escape the demands of the world, to wander back to a day when time was measured by the length of a shadow rather than by the ...

Today, time is read at a flick of a wrist or push of a button, but our ancestors had to use a natural power source to tell time. They designed sundials that used sunlight and shadows to display the ...

How will you celebrate the shortest day of the year? Winter solstice happens here at 8:49 p.m. tonight, Dec. 21, and master gardeners in Washington State University Extension Clark County have devised ...

Sundials symbolize, romantically and nostalgically, the link between the sun, the Earth and the passage of time, and that's why so many gardeners love them. But the sundial gracing Audrey Roberts' ...

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ZUMBRO FALLS — Paul Kinion's project began with beer, came down to time and ended up a reminder of how life continues after tragedy. As you might guess, this is a rather complicated story. But the ...

Clever drinkers have come up with an ingenious way of telling the time while boozing - by turning a beer glass into a sundial. Friends Jackie Jones and Steve Chapman spent six months perfecting the ...