It’s summer solstice, with our planet’s northern hemisphere getting its most sunlight because it’s axis tilt is tipping it more towards the sun than any other time on its orbit around our star, the sun.
My favourite orrery, the planets today, shows the sun at 6 o’ clock now, going anti-clockwise:
Yesterday we travelled the world with the New Year, from east to west with the new sunlight and darkness. And today we wake to a bright sunny morning. Everybody and everything at the Greenygrey wishes the world a Happy New Year 2013…
As the last days of autumn/fall in the northern hemisphere lay ahead, Marc Latham’s latest FM poem has the leaves of deciduous trees as its topic. Here’s the poetry:
Image by ED́WW day_dae (esteemedhelga)™ via Flickr
It’s spring in the northern hemisphere, and nice to see all the new life around, such as green leaves and dusky ducklings. Here’s a few words put together into some kind of FM order by Marc Latham: