I look out my window into the night, and see fireflies flashing everywhere. I’d like to see them close up, but it’s not supposed to get below eighty till after one o’clock; I’ll stay in.
It’s Midsummer's Eve. I have puzzled over that for years: it just turned summer, and now it’s midsummer. But there was something on a weather site the other day which mentioned solar summer - which is May, June and July. Now that makes sense; if summer starts in May, it would be midsummer now. Now I can turn my wondering to the next thing.
I also thought that was crazy when I first heard that Midsummer was a specific day not obviously in the middle. Thanks for explaining further than I got in my trying to figure it out.
ReplyDeleteGretchen Joanna
They ought to call it mid-year's day but that doesn't sound so interesting. I too, feel a bit miffed when people talk about Midsummer's Day. We sometimes have only just got away from frosts and the days are shortening already!
ReplyDeleteSshhh.. It is the strangest thing, though.
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