Here Comes Summer

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You know I think summer is a season that has more enjoyable summer songs than any other. I always looked forward to summer, As a child because school ended for a while, as a teen because my friends and I spent time at the beach, and as an adult, I loved being a camp counselor at our Latvian summer camps in both the US and in Canada. Now you know my story about living in Latvia very well and I have now embraced both the happy and sad memories of my summers there but have chosen autumn as my favorite month now. For all the beautiful colors and for the cooler temps. Did you know that the word summer is a very old word? It was first recorded in the year 900. It comes from an Old English word, sumor. The word is related to zomer in Dutch, Sommer in German, and sama in Sanskrit meaning year. Around 1300 it became an adjective and we got terms like summer camp, summer school, and summer resort all recorded in the 1800s. Officially as you know summer begins on June 21 coinciding with the summer solstice – one of the longest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer ends on September 23 the autumn equinox when the sun is at its zenith at or directly above the equator and spring arrives in the Southern Hemisphere. I got used to it, but it was confusing for a while when I asked someone I was chatting with online if they had hot weather and would reply, What hot weather? Snow is falling. Oops, I forgot who I was talking to in what part of the world