Tha sinn faisg air an latha as fhaide — we are near the longest day. Atlanta's magnolias are open the length of the block, that lemon-and-cold-cream smell hanging in the heat, and the fireflies have started their slow code the second the light goes amber. https://twp.ai/4hsZE7
#Solstice #Summer #Phenology #Nature #Atlanta #FireflySeason #EarthBased #Druid #Seasonal #Magnolia #SouthernSummer #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

The gooseneck loose strife is the backup band for the lily riot this year. #gardening
#bloomscrolling #flowers #southernsummer

The joy at a visible if fleeting sign of #NorthernWinter is real; if always allied to an awareness of what's wrong, and what's happening in #SouthernSummer. But take your joys. I sneaked up before work to Queens Wood, Highgate last week, a wonderful fragment of Oak-Hornbeam woodland, when the snow had fallen; watched a Redwing (Rotdrossel) gobbling ivy berries, too, a sight without which I don't think winter has properly happened #climatediary #klimatagebuch