I have made my fondness for the summer solstice as clear as can be. Officially, summer begins in these parts at precisely 3:24 a.m. today.
I love when the sun rises at 5:05 a.m. If I had my way, we would not “spring ahead” and the sun would rise at 4:05 a.m. today. I don’t care when the sun sets; most days I’m tired by then anyway.
We are scheduled to have about 15 and a half hours of daylight today. I am very fond of daylight.
The reason I’m singin’ dem ol’ Summer Solstice Blues is that starting tomorrow, the day will be a few seconds shorter. This, this day right here, is the longest day of the year. Next thing you know — well, on Sept. 22 — we’ll have 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night — and on Dec. 21 we’ll have 15 and a half hours of nighttime. Fooey on that stuff.
The forecast says that the sun will be shining for much of the morning and it will get cloudier as the afternoon progresses, but I don’t care. It’s the summer solstice, and the distance between sunrise and sunset is the farthest it’s going to be in 2026, and that’s good enough for me.
On second thought, never mind the blues, they can wait until December. Let’s celebrate all this daylight.
