Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Summer Solstice
First day of summer and first Japanese Beetle. Surely it's too early for Japanese Beetles? Last year I noticed the first one on June 26.
The summer solstice was this morning at 8:26. The longest day of the year - I've been waiting for it for six months. Our earliest sunrise was about a week ago, and our latest sunset won't happen for another week or so. Today, I noticed that it's quite light outside by 5 AM, but according to the US Naval Observatory, astronomical twilight began at 3:45 AM. And in more northern latitudes (in England, for example), today there was no beginning of twilight because there was no ending of twilight - the sun was never more than 18 degrees below the horizon.
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