Category: January...

fresh fruit canned in the summer to enjoy on a January night
replacing all the smoke detector batteries on January 1
January is named after Janus, the Roman god of all beginnings
January replaced March as the first month of the year by 153 BCE
It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. (W. Stevens)
Capricorn, garnet, carnation, Aquarius
the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, begun in 1800 to resemble the Festival of Flowers in Nice
celebrating St. Basil, singing calends, carols of good wishes for the new year
Twelfth Night, Martin Luther King Jr Day, and Tu Bishvat
financial accounting beginning anew for those for whom the calendar year is the fiscal year
seeing as many as 75 whales swim by every day in California as the gray whales travel south, eventually arriving in the lagoons off the Baja California coast
starting another orbit of the sun to travel 583,416,000 miles in 365.2422 days
Maine's Sieur de Monts National Monument and Acadia National Park's anniversary (1919)