Merry Midsummer

[calissa]

A merry belated Midsummer to everyone celebrating it. And a merry Yule to all my friends in the Northern Hemisphere.

I took yesterday off to mark the occasion and spent some time cooking myself pancakes and contemplating the looming spectre of 2016.

The weather here has been all over the place. We had 37 Celsius over the weekend (with a minimum of 20 in between). However, the last two days have been much cooler and grey, with some rain. My vegetable garden is lapping it up.

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[bunny_m]

RAIN!

Oh, I wish there was a good, long rain here any time soon.

But no, we're pretty much in the middle of First Summer/Birak, and in 3-4 weeks we'll get started on High Summer/Bunuru.

Ugh!

I long for the cool/cold and wet/windy days of High Winter/Makuru already.

[calissa]

I hear summer is pretty brutal out your way, so I can understand how you might long for Makuru. I do hope that summer is kind to you this year.

I'm still working out if the D'harawal Calendar is a good fit for this area, considering we are further south, less coastal and more alpine. However, according to that reckoning, we are just about to move out of warm and wet Parra'dowee and into hot and dry Burran, so that may be the last rain we see for a little while.

[meridian_rose]

Glad you had a nice time - pancakes sound like a good idea :)
The weather here has been odd with very unseasonably warm temperatures for the UK!

[calissa]

The pancakes are a personal tradition and very tasty (especially with some Golden Syrup on top. Nom).

It sounds like the weather has been odd all over the globe. Are you enjoying the extra warmth?

[meridian_rose]

It doesn't feel very Christmassy when it's so warm is the thing. Then we had major storms again yesterday but it looks like more settled and cooler weather is moving in :)

[alee_grrl]

Midsummer blessings to you as well! The weather has been unseasonably warm here in Vermont. Instead of our usually snow we've been getting rain. I'm glad we're getting precipitation of some kind since it'd been a dry autumn, but missed having snow on the ground for Yule. Glad to hear you were able to take some time off for celebration and reflection. :)

[calissa]

Thank you!

It's worrisome to hear how out-of-whack the weather is everywhere at the moment. I'm glad you got some rain, though, since it sounds like it was much needed.

[onewhitecrow]

Happy Solstice!

The rain comes with free ice around here.

Also, that is a stunning photo and is making me happy to look at my reading page, so thank you for that.

[calissa]

Happy Solstice! I hope the dark times are being kind to you, ice aside.

Ah, thank you! It took a few shots for me to capture because there was a bit of a breeze making things challenging. This season has always been blue and gold for me and the picture captures why.

[bunny_m]

It is indeed a gorgeous and evocative photo.

[calissa]

Thank you! I've been thinking it might make a good replacement for my current icon for summer.

[moonvoice]

Blessed Midsummer! :D Also that picture is so spot on for how the season feels to me. The grass stalks empty of grain and the land drying out.

The weather here has been all over the place but in a different way. We've had two days of 40, but Christmas itself will be 29, which is *very* unusual here. Usually in Perth, Christmas week is like...35-40 every day. Climate change is strange!

[calissa]

Blessed Midsummer to you!

The photo does capture the season nicely, doesn't it? As I said above, Midsummer has always been blue and gold to me, with the endless sky and the dry grass.

Climate change is definitely strange. We don't get the sustained heat quite as much as you do. But when I got up this morning, it was only 9 degrees! I'm finding it a bit too chilly.