Summer Solstice

Is it long enough for you? The length of daylight, that is? If not, too bad, because it doesn't get any better than this! (at our latitude, anyway).

Summer solstice. The tilt of the earth on its axis, combined with its yearly orbit around the sun, puts the sun (and its astronomical companion, the ecliptic) as far north in our sky as it gets.

I like solstices and equinoxes. There's something about being reminded that we are on this relatively small blue planet, tilted, rotating, and orbiting with clockwork precision around our star. Nicely predictable, in an often unpredictable human world.

Wishing you all a fantastic summer!