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Hi All ;  
Happy summer solstice 2019!  Lets enjoy our summer while we can... as we all know (game of thrones) WINTER is coming!
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Hooray for the Solstice.

Hard to think it is mid year here at the 2019 PDC with seeing our breath this morning. But the sun going down at 10ish at night definitely drives the point home.
 
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Hi Devin;   Yeah, that's the north west  for you.    We had new white stuff on the peaks yesterday.  I had a small fire last night and relit it this morning.
Have a great time at the PDC!
 
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Yay solstice!

I enjoyed watching the sun rise this morning, and how far to the northeast it rose from my perspective and location on the globe. Observing celestial events as the seasons change and progress us something I really enjoy.

And I wish a happy solstice to all as well! Hope you have a good one!

 
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Happy Solstice!

Plenty hot here!

 
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Happy Solstice everyone!

I'm going to dinner at a friend's this evening, and I'm making Deviled Eggs - the "sunniest" think I could think of!
 
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Happy Solstice to all!
 
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Happy solstice, let the melting begin.
Our temps three days ago were in the 80's and now we are rapidly nearing 100, yesterday it was 98 with a cold front having just moved through.
It's so good to live in the south with the high temps and high humidity, we can sit and watch the new steel rust right before our eyes.
 
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Happy Solstice! Hotter here, to be sure - but, no less WET! I'm having great difficulty getting anything done!
 
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I grew up with high humidity... this is how I felt every time:)  I moved to the north west because of it. I'll take 9 months of winter and mud and 3 months of road construction anytime!
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On another note, the flooding has past and deposited tons of soil, which the good government folks are rapidly using to cover the land fills since they are afraid of the biology of those silt deposits, quite sad to think how paranoid people have to be because of the modern farm method creating such nasty critters in the wash down soils.
It seems that we can only get 10 days without rain, we had a big storm two days ago and all next week we can look forward to more of the same.
I remember when the coming of June meant the rainy season was over until September, no longer is that the case.

To think that back in the ancient times such a flood meant that Egypt would get to eat fresh grain because of the Nile floods depositing soil from up stream. No longer can that be a boon to the farmers at least not in the Americas.

Again Happy solstice to all (as I wipe the sweat from my eyes).
This is the time of year I have lots to do but have to take the work in 30 minute periods with water and cool down breaks almost as long as the work periods.
 
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:On another note, the flooding has past and deposited tons of soil, which the good government folks are rapidly using to cover the land fills since they are afraid of the biology of those silt deposits, quite sad to think how paranoid people have to be because of the modern farm method creating such nasty critters in the wash down soils.
It seems that we can only get 10 days without rain, we had a big storm two days ago and all next week we can look forward to more of the same.
I remember when the coming of June meant the rainy season was over until September, no longer is that the case.

To think that back in the ancient times such a flood meant that Egypt would get to eat fresh grain because of the Nile floods depositing soil from up stream. No longer can that be a boon to the farmers at least not in the Americas.

Again Happy solstice to all (as I wipe the sweat from my eyes).

This is the time of year I have lots to do but have to take the work in 30 minute periods with water and cool down breaks almost as long as the work periods.



I'm about 5 1/2hrs almost due North of you, in Gravois Mills, MO, and I feel your pain - from both the weather and the ravages of time. We (the midwest) need a break in the rain. A couple weeks would be amazing! Hopefully, these longer days will combine with some dry skies long enough that I can finish the coop, to get my pullets housed more appropriately than in my living room! Ahhh, hope springs eternal!
 
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Here we are again!! I hope everyone has a great litha and is able to spend some time outside soaking up the light on this longest day of daylight in the northern hemisphere.



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....great day to party, great day to find solar south and to find the maximum sun coverage/shadows on your land.....for cold climates, winter solstice is the more important time to do your solar orienting!
 
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Happy Summer Solstice everyone!

Unfortunately James, I don't think I'll get to soak up much sun as we're getting the liquid results of sunshine today, but I will get to move a Mother Duck with just hatched ducklings from her setting cube to a portable shelter and that's as good as sunshine for brightening my day!

@ Orin: I'm confused with solar south, and I think it's day-light savings time that's confusing me. Any quick advice for someone on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada?
 
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James Freyr wrote:Yay solstice!

I enjoyed watching the sun rise this morning, and how far to the northeast it rose from my perspective and location on the globe. Observing celestial events as the seasons change and progress us something I really enjoy.

And I wish a happy solstice to all as well! Hope you have a good one!



For me, it is the sunset I watch, and which landform it sinks behind.  My western skyline is my clock.

On the day of great change, I contemplate the holiness of the cosmos.

My simple mind says that just for an instant “the earth stands still” before day length begins to shorten, before the earth’s axis begins to tip the opposite direction and we begin the inexorable process of trading with our friends on the opposite north / south hemisphere,  winter for summer, summer for winter…. but obviously, it doesn’t stand still.  It spins and moves through space in relation to the rest of the universe.

This is fact.  This is reality, is unalterable truth, free of cultural constructs and personal subjectivity.  

I don’t always hold this awareness in my mind, say when a contractor argues with me about what’s to be done at my place, and he just wants to talk about industry standards, for example, and we have already addressed “industry standards”, on my dime, for example.  Or “resale value”, etc.  But it’s my goal, to keep sight of what is real:  life is fleeting, we are here.

How I celebrate the solstice? Let me quote Raffi:

“I feel a world of wonder going on and on, just like the sun, these gifts are here for everyone.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4HYkb00pzIw&ra=m

 
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And for those who are approaching the winter solstice in a few hours, here’s the song I love for that!



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPIdTfJzBYM&ra=m
 
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I actually woke up this morning—2:30 am as usual—and got my coffee thinking “Summer Solstice is right around the corner.”  

Well I guess my internal calendar was a little bit late!

Thanks Thomas for resetting my internal calendar!



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Eric Hanson wrote: Well I guess my internal calendar was a little bit late!


Not necessarily... The trouble is that I'm not sure when the solstice hits each part of the planet?? Is the "hour of the solstice" the same in BC, Canada, as Delhi, India?

As the dailyish writer, I chose to warn people a little early so they could make plans, rather than risking disappointment. I will celebrate with dinner with friends tomorrow evening, which will be Sunday on my side of the International Date Line. I believe in Delhi, it's already Sunday, unless I've got myself all mixed up.

And yes, Happy Winter Solstice to all you upside down people in the southern hemisphere!
 
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For the Northern Hemisphere, it starts tomorrow Jun 21,2026 at 4:24 EST.

Happy tomorrow!
 
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Hi Jay.  😊
My best understanding is that the solstice is a single moment, when the planet or maybe i should say the axis the planet spins around, reaches the point when each pole is the farthest it can go in that direction in orientation to the sun, and begins to tip the opposite direction.  The tilt of the axis is constant (sort of, there is a wobble but that occurs over eons, and is what Kipling refers to as the “precession of the equinoxes” in uuum probably the elephants child, one of the just so stories anyway).  Precise vocabulary is challenging for me on this, but my answer is that the solstice is at a discrete moment, the same moment all over our planet, rather than traveling with the sunrise or sunset.

Daylight savings time complicates things.

The time reported is around 9am BST (british summer time). I think for me in Mountain Daylight time, it’ll be about 2 am.  It’ll happen while I am sleeping so I didn’t bother remembering the minutes… US Pacific Daylight time 1ish.  It’s so confusing.  It would be so easy to say it happens “an hour earlier” on the pacific coast, but it happens at the same moment all around the world, and that moment catches us at different places in our familiar daily rhythms.

Thanks for the apple on my previous post!😊❤️
 
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And so, as it is a discrete moment, I like to be mindful of it both in the approach and afterwards.

I try to notice if there’s anything to notice 🤣
 
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Here in NZ, this evening we’ll be celebrating winter solstice 🥰
 
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Megan, did you see the winter Solstice song I posted at 9:27 this morning “thread time”?  
 
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Thank you Thekla, I have listened to it just now!
 
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