It's Summer!

Elver Park, Madison, WI
8/1/2015  dwm photo

15:22:14 hours of daylight - Summer Solstice - the first day of Summer.

If you want to take advantage of every second, you may not need an alarm clock if your bedroom faced east.  Twilight began at 4:42 AM, sunrise just a short time after summer arrives at 5:17.

Sunset is 8:39 PM Central Daylight Time and it is dark by 9:14.

Tomorrow will be three seconds shorter.  Two days from now seven seconds shorter than the day before, by the end of the month we will lose 35 seconds.  So it goes until the Winter Solstice.

Brilliant sunshine

Warm and long days beckon.

Can I take today off?

Sunrise over Madison  8/31/2014  dwm photo

Called Days

They are called lazy

hazy

Care-free

treasured and wasted.

Summer days last long

but fade into

distant memories

too fast.

Days to ride

to swim, to dream,

to work and to love.

54 Summers

I spent some of my summers

Attending vacation bible school

Riding my bike

Staying with Grandpa & Grandma

Working part-time

Working full-time

Playing baseball at "Stump Weed Memorial Stadium"

Catching Lightning Bugs

Shooting fire works

And thinking about what I used to do on earlier summer days.