Today is the longest day of the year, summer having arrived at 6:51am EDT ....

What I usually do (besides having a Mimosa drink at sunset if the hour it arrives finds me still asleep) is take pictures of my house and garden shade patterns. That way I know what stays always shaded and what is always in the sun. After a while it becomes embedded in your mind and you'll simply check to see if what you plant is getting its proper light conditions.

So enjoy this longest day, and the first of many which will seem longer still because of the enduring heat, maybe dryness.

You might say this is "Hump Day" since the day immediately begins to shorten on its swing back to the shortest day, first day of winter.

Ah, Time. We never have enough of it.
Happy Summer everyone. May you have adequate rain and abundant harvests.