Summer Solstice and longest day of sunlight is 6/21 and this week’s photo theme. For me that typically brings to mind long and slow sunsets.
Long Evening Sunlight
Growing up in the SW part of the United States, having light until nearly 10PM is still very unusual for me. Yet here we are, not far from the Montana border and it’s still light enough to walk or enjoy the evening between 7pm til after 9PM.
Progression of our Sunset view from the Bridger-Teton National Forest taken 6/18/2022 (note: times are approximate). The long slow descent and evening glow well passed dinner, seems to energize us. It’s hard to plan on turning in when there’s still an option for activity.
Below was from last week on a chilly and cloudy morning. I’m definitely looking forward to not having to run the heater before hopping out of the cooled sheets and make a cup of coffee. However, this was a morning I was glad to don a jacket and shoes and plant a camera outside. Although more pink in the clouds never surfaced, this time lapse was fun to watch the growing light as the morning clouds shifted under the rising sun. The time lapse started shortly after 5AM which puts this image mid way through the morning twilight and full sunrise.
Colorful Wildflowers
With the long days of summer, we also embrace bright colors. I recently had a chance to chase a few wildflowers as they’re called in the forests; however, at home they’re simply weeds. I love stumbling into forest meadows sprinkled with colorful blooms.
In between rain storms the daisies turning into our campsite, just seem to keep exploding.
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Beautiful photos and choices for last weeks challenge. I’m trying to make sure I catch up with everyone since Terri can’t link to them all individually like she normally does.
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Thanks Kirstin! I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for that week’s theme…then I had the opportunity to try to capture the sun’s evening progress. Seemed to fit. I’m always glad to see you stopped by!
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Hi Cheryl, sorry I’m late to read. But first what beautiful flowers and slooowww sunset pics you shared. We spent the solstice in 107 degree heat in the Sacramento delta…I do miss that light in the sky til 10:30 in Spokane!
When I publish my next SS post July 3, please link to that post instead of my page. Links to my page don’t get added to the comment section. This way I get a link notice in WP and can go directly to your post to approve and read. I’m working off mobile and I can’t get to posts via my outlook. Have a great week and enjoy Montana!
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You bet; thanks for explaining the links to post via page too…I did wonder. I’ll got back and add it. Hope your trip is going smoothly. We keep hitting cold and wet and I started thinking…where’s the 70 degree right now? It’s either 90-100+ or 50-60. Lol
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No middle ground! At least we have wind in the delta finally, so hubby can windsurf. Still hot during the day but cool in am and pm. Our next leg is San Diego on Monday, leaving the trailer behind to save on gas until we come back in July. I admire you and others who live on the road…I need more practice 🤣
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Lovely collection of pictures. It’s pretty neat to track how much daylight we have in the spring leading up to the summer solstice. I’m not looking forward to losing a bit of it with each passing day now though.
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Me neither!
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