Astronomical summer starts on the summer solstice, the instant when Earth’s North Pole is tilted most toward the Sun, which is the calendar day with the most daylight (other than in regions that have several days in a row during which the sun doesn’t set at all). This year, the summer solstice starts on Sunday, June 21. But meteorological summer starts on June 1 every single year, whether it is a leap year, a blue moon year, n’importe quoi, because meteorologists group seasons by full months. So: meteorological summer starts sooner, which is cool. Astronomical summer lasts a day or two longer, which is also cool. But we are impatient for summer to start, so we observe meteorological summer, which is today. Thus: Happy Summertime. — Oblivioni Magazine

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I am a girl in a bikini. Did summer exist before girls in bikinis? — Kalyee Srithnam

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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18  

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“I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.” — Walt Whitman, Song of Myself   

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“A something in a summer’s day, / As slow her flambeaux burn away, / Which solemnizes me.”
— Emily Dickinson, “A Something in a Summer’s Day”  

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“I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down / into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, / how to be idle and blessed….” — Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”  

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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa.” 

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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on trees… I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley  

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Photographs by 366308 / Pixabay, YanceTAY / Pixabay, Kalyee Srithnam, Alon Preiss, Natalia Collegova / Pixabay, StockSnap / Pixabay,