Today is the Summer Solstice. I know it is quite significant to some people for various reasons. For me, it is the reason I love to live and play in Edmonton. This picture was taken from my deck at 9:44 PM. We will have a total of 17 hours of sunshine today – not counting that brief thunderstorm. Sunset in the Northwest sky is at 10:07 PM. The light will linger long after midnight with the sky in the north not ever getting black but staying a very dark blue. To me there is nothing finer than long lazy evenings on my deck or at a family picnic. Lots of great things happened to me today. Solstice is one of them.
AGREED! COME ON SUMMMERRRRR! 🙂 Beautiful pic! You ever thought about being a photographer??
me and my iphone are photographers 🙂 just no pays us lol
That’s a cool photo! We don’t ever have a sunset that late, but it does get close to 9:30-10:00 on a few nights. You are right, there is nothing finer than lazy summer evenings!
I’m with you. I was outside last night at 11:00 to view the sky. I couldn’t get over how it wasn’t even dark outside it felt like 8:00 not 11:00. It was nice to be outside staring at the sky. What a beautiful blue it was.
It is the best part of summer!!
I do miss the almost-midnite-sun of Edmonton, I used to live an hour further north growing up on the farm. Spectacular Northern Lights.
Happy Summer
xxx
ahhhh northern lights. The best part about fall 🙂
Oh man, I hate all the light this time of year! It’s weird when you never see the night sky for two straight months. Unless you’re out partying it up, of course.
How can you hate that???
We don’t even have 17 hours of sunshine here in the middle of summer. Xx
it is awesome. Best part about summer 🙂