It is hard to believe it, but I have been magically whisked away to an instant summer. The grass is green, flowers are blooming (maybe I should have brought more allergy meds!), and moreso, the feel in the air is booming with summertime joy. You can feel that this is the very beginning of a season for outdoor leisure. While I only endured a few weeks of the cold, dark, snowy winter leading up to the winter solstice, the people around me have suffered a long and dark session that has just had a nail put in its coffin by the summer solstice.
The weather is still cool - jeans and long sleeves, especially when it is overcast as it is right now - and is perfectly reminiscent of early summer in Burlington. As it should be - I am currently around the 45 parallel South, equidistant nearly to where The Vermont-Canadian border is in the northern hemisphere. This sensation is distinctly different from when I travelled to Central America, where the heat and humidity was so different that it wasn't like I was transported to a summer that I knew in the completely opposite time of the year. In Guatemala, I was actually experiencing their invierno - normally translated as winter, which they use to refer to the dry season.
But this is most assuredly verano, no doubt about it. The sun didn't set until nearly 10 pm, and it is slated to rise early, around 6. Gives me plenty of tine to enjoy all that there is to enjoy here! More to come...
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