Midsummer!

[Erik Petersson]

That's because we think of summer as "the hot season", and it starts warming up around now, and the hottest days are over by late September. That's how I look at it, anyway.

In Sweden, and probably Finland too, summer is about both light and warm weather. I've spent midsummer in Germany once, but it just felt like August. Too dark.

 

[Mats_A]

Mats, if I visit during Midsummer, can I be an honorary Finn?

This sounds like my kinda holiday!

You are welcome. We will show you all the pagan rites, drink Akvavit, eat herring and take pictures in the middle of the night whithout flash.

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Mats

 

[Q.G.]

Now you got me planning on going through my parents freezer for ice cream. It's in the middle of the night, but they live close to me and aren't home...

And? Did you?

 

[Q.G.]

In Sweden, and probably Finland too, summer is about both light and warm weather. I've spent midsummer in Germany once, but it just felt like August. Too dark.

I absolutely love the artic summers up in northern Europe, the very prolonged dawns and dusk. Absolutely beautiful light (also due to the very clean air you have up there), in beautiful countries, inhabited by very friendly people.

But i also like the sultry summernights more to the south. Darkness has a thing going for it too.
Dark and cold - that's another thing. Unless the cold is a cold drink (or some ice cream) to help pass the hot, dark nights away.

 

[Erik Petersson]

One of the most popular radio summer hits up here in Sweden goes "summer is short, and rainy anyway. The sun may still shine for only one day." Still we need summer so much after that long winter. You could say that our summers balance on the fine line between wish and reality, and therefore have something magical about them.

They very much differ from the summers in the south, which are so concrete.

 

[Vaughn]

Welcome Summer!

Ending a season well is as important as how one starts it out. Or at least that is my excuse for backpacking with my boys on the last three days of Spring (and the boys' first days of summer vacation, too!). In a week and a half, I'll be on a short two-night car camp trip with a bunch of friends along the Mattole River (in Northern CA, and happens to be on my birthday), then me and the boys hit the road for Spokane and my sister's place for a couple weeks. Once home, I have two weeks before work starts. Summer seems much too short when it is all planned out! I have two months off during the summer, yet it still seems too short --- spoiled brat that I am!LOL!

But then I like Fall Winter and Spring around here, too. Being in the cooler coastal clime, we tend to take max advantage of any summer sun -- heading inland if the fog persists. The fog can burn off finally at 3pm, then sock back in at 4pm! Time for me to pull the 3 rolls of 6x6 negs out of the drier that mark the end to Spring and the beginning of Summer!

Vaughn

 

[JPD]

And? Did you?

Yes, but they didn't have any ice cream.

 

[Q.G.]

Ah!
Thanks for reminding me to put ice cream on today's shopping list!
They say the next days/week will be hot again.