Summer Solstice 2019
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I was a child of Summer back in the old days. I used to spend a lot of time outdoors roaming barefooted through the lawns of the neighborhood and frequenting the many patches of clover.
There were the ice cream trucks and occasional bee stings and I was frequently getting yelled at for being in someone's yard ... but I just let it roll of my back like water from a duck and got on with the adventure at hand.
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Nowadays things are different. I will likely go home and seek that comfort of my 3.5 ton HVAC which supplies abundant cool dry air and sit on my wingback chair and vege out in front of some program streaming on the teevee.
The Summer Solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer which corresponds to 23.5 degrees north latitude.
It is the longest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere and signifies the start of summer.
Today is the Summer Solstice. I don't think I'll be doing much in the way of reveling out of doors ... but the day is not lost on me by a long shot.