#summersolstice – De & the Dachsies

Summer Solstice?

Seriously, Mother Nature? This is the best you can do? Today is Summer Solstice; the longest day (in regards to daylight hours) in the year. Here at our house, it dawned (more or less) overcast and once again raining. I’m beginning to feel like I’m in a rainy version of “Groundhog Day”. Trying to keepContinue reading “Summer Solstice?”

I’m Not Sorry

Summer Solstice in Seward, Alaska, was bittersweet this year, as usual. As midnight approached and I could still clearly see the beauty and vast magnitude of Resurrection Bay and the still snow-dappled peaks of the Kenai mountain range beyond, I felt both blessed and depressed. Mt. Alice, the photogenic peak featured in so many ofContinue reading “I’m Not Sorry”

The Longest Day

I have a long standing love/hate relationship with Summer Solstice. Living in Alaska, we have a habit of celebrating this day of longest possible daylight in the proverbial “land of the midnight sun” with parties, midnight BBQ’s, all-night baseball games … pretty much everything except possibly fireworks. With a full 22 hours of functional daylightContinue reading “The Longest Day”