I like special days like summer solstice. I have always thought about the longest day of the year even as a child. Well, I probably missed the first half dozen.
I only attended a summer solstice celebration once. I was living in Inuvik NWT. Some of us would climb up a hill just south of town. We had a good supply of hotdogs and beer. We would wait until midnight. Now at that latitude we had 24 hour daylight . We'd had 24 hour daylight for about 3 weeks. So the getting together was not for celebrating the longest day but solstice itself. So gradually we would wander off home (no cars) and appear a little bleary eyed a work the next morning.
So here ae todays numbers:
sunrise 5:13 AM
sunset 10:00 PM
Daylight hours 16:47
The photos are not from today but a few years ago. I was out for a bike ride when I took these photos.
happy solstice!
ReplyDeleteYou do have very long days of sunlight there. I love the season of equinox, but solstice is wonderful way to understand the tilting revolution of our earth.
ReplyDeleteI've experienced longer during my time in the Arctic.
DeleteIt's those days when you get doing things in the afternoon, and think I'm peckish..must be time for a teabreak..and it's after seven!
ReplyDeleteHappy Solstice! Pirate has seen the same number as you have.
Yes, evening comes much later. When I was in the Arctic with 24 hour daylight I felt as if I had more energy.
DeletePretty capture of the sunshine. Happy Summer Solstice. Take care, enjoy your day!
ReplyDeleteThat photo was a surprise for me as it was the first sunset photo I'd ever taken.
DeleteFor a few years, I tired to get up for solstice sunrise, but I haven’t made it for few years, and most certainly not this year.
ReplyDeleteI haven't made those special times for a few years now. SAd!
DeleteAnd many more!
ReplyDelete5:27 to 9:20 that is 15 hours and 53 minutes for us. Now the days get shorter...all that light wasted early this Spring when it was so cold you could not be outside.
ReplyDeleteAnd I stayed in and wasted the hot afternoons!
DeleteWe have lots of daylight at this time of year, too. I am actually kind of glad that we are now beginning to lose a little bit each day!
ReplyDeleteOh no! Let's not lose the daylight.
DeleteHappy Solstice, Red.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteFor us today by comparison it's 5:15 and 8:55.
ReplyDeleteAnd your nights get very dark. Our nights don't get terribly dark.
DeleteOur sunrise is the same time but sunset is earlier, 9:11.
ReplyDeleteHappy Solstice!
Our time system skews out times when compared with others.
DeleteHere in good old Arizona, we don't do Daylight Savings Time so it gets dark by around 8 at night.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated solstice. I can't imagine it being light at 10 PM!
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