Solstice

It's 10pm, and I'm sitting here looking at what is still a blue sky, although the sun has gone and the blue is deepening towards twilight. It's still more than light enough to see colours in the garden, and not just the vivid pinks and oranges of the Busy Lizzies. In an hour or so the colours will be gone, all but the deep blue of the twilight sky.

The night at this time of the year doesn't quite touch 7 hours from sunset to sunrise. But tonight is the night it tuns, as the nights slowly lengthen. It will get warmer for a few weeks yet, but this night is the reminder that the seasons will turn once again.