Solstice

Today is the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year. The sun seems to "stand still" in the sky-- the Solstice. The sun is below the horizon for only about 7 hours tonight. Welcome summer!  It won't ever be quite the same without Annette Funicello.

Up until now our June has felt more like a July, and we set another obscure all-time weather record in Seattle.  The first 14 days of June had high temperatures of 68 degrees or warmer, for the first time in 68 years of record keeping.  June is usually cool and damp, but the flower beds were soon dried out and the lawns already turning brown. A nice light rain finally came down yesterday afternoon, and this morning is chilly and wet.  So maybe things are getting back to normal.