TheBanyanTree: Glorious Summer-Like Days

[B Drummond]

That's what we've had for the last few weeks.  It's been plenty warm but not 
hot (well, at least to us, that is.  My sister, visiting from Oregon, thinks 
it's hot).  Temps have been in the high 80s F, we've had short, late 
afternoon thunderstorms every few days, the grass is the most intense green, 
the trees are in glorious full foliage, the mimosas are in bloom and 
the mornings are cool (typically in the 50s F)

We're three days from the full moon and the mid-year solstice is just a couple 
of weeks away, when we, in the northern hemisphere, have our longest days and 
start the slow tilt away from our celestial power source again.

Another case where the changing seasons remind me that we, like the Steve 
Miller Band song says, are "lost in space . . . and the earth is our home".

For you see,  space is not OUT THERE, but rather, we're right in the middle of 
it, on a mass that's spinning around at approximately 1000 mph and circling 
the sun at a speed of about 67,000 mph.  We'll soon reach the mid-point on 
that 583 million mile  journey around our sun.  We truly are space creatures 
on a sojourn.

It's not summer yet on the calendar but it is the best of the best of summer 
for us in the weeks just before summer officially begins.  Later in the 
season it's too doggone hot at night and even the early mornings can be 
sticky with heat and humidity.  Stifling is the term that those that live 
outside outside our area use to describe our summer heat and humidity.  We 
just say, "It's another scorcher, aint it?" and go on about our business.



  bd
    ----