Summer Solstice – Midsummer

Tuesday, June 21, 2022     

Sunrise: 5:10 a.m.  -  Sunset: 8:23 p.m.

 

One of the four solar holidays;

the turning point at which summer reaches its height

and the sun shines longest.

 

Summer Solstice Sunset 

(Photo by CDI)

“What you are watching
is light unlearning itself,
an infinite unfrocking of the prism.

Before your eyes

the ordinary life
is being glazed over:
pigments of the bibelot
the cabochon, the water-opal
pearl to the intimate
simple colours…

Can't you feel it?

Aren't you chilled by it?
The way the late afternoon
is reduced to detail -
the sky that odd shape of apron -
opaque, scumbled,
the lazulis of the horizon becoming
optical greys
before your eyes…”

Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening

Eavan Boland