Marilyn's Photos - June 19 2025 - Summer Solstice

 

The summer solstice is tomorrow, Friday, at 10:42 pm.  Is it PM, pm, or p.m.  I see a number of variations.  I don't know if it because there are competing style books, or if it because it is now a free-for-all and anything goes.  I vote for the latter.  So I thought I might check on what the official style book would say.  Wikipedia is a good enough source.   Wikipedia says:  The Latin abbreviations a.m. and p.m. (often written "am" and "pm", "AM" and "PM", or "A.M." and "P.M.") are used in English (and Spanish). "Before midday" comes from the Latin ante meridian and :after midday' comes from the Latin post meridian.  Twelve hours - so symmetrical.   So whether the Summer Solstice  is at PM, pm, or P.M. or p.m. we are cheated a bit in North America as it isn't much of a celebration here.  I assume we lack the ancient sites that have magic and wonder in them.  Stonehenge, for example, compels the world's attention at the solstices each year.  The estimate is between 12,000 to 15,000 people will be at the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge this year.   So onwards to Summer which will pass like a blink of an eye.  William Shakespeare said "Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

A multiple exposure image of Alliums at the Royal Botanical Garden - a watercolour version and the original.

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Summer's Flowers - Allium

I really enjoy Alliums.  They are a large family of bulbs that bloom from spring through to late fall. Here are 2 variations. The first is a current blooming cernuum allium about 6 inches tall in my salad garden, and the second is the 2 foot tall June-blooming version - likely Purple Sensation - outside of the Gooderham and Wort Flatiron building on Front Street Toronto.  I'm looking forward to having alliums bloom into October with the allium thunbergii Ozawa.