Summer is starting, so I thought I'd write about shifting into the new season! This post is in a similar style to my previous ones from last year on Saying Goodbye to Winter, Moving into Spring and Saying Goodbye to Summer, Moving into Autumn.
Note: If winter is starting where you are, you might like this post:
Getting Ready for Winter: https://livingseasonal.blogspot.com/2017/12/getting-ready-for-winter.html
While the shift from winter to spring is more optimistic for me, I find the one from summer to autumn a bit depressing (although autumn is a beautiful season). Going from spring to summer feels the most inspiring to me.
Back in 2018 I wrote a post about getting ready for summer. You can read that here: https://livingseasonal.blogspot.com/2018/06/getting-ready-for-summer_3.html
In that post I mentioned that are two "official" starts to summer- 1st June and around 20th June, the day of the Summer Solstice (also known as Litha; see below) which varies slightly each year. Some years it feels like summer starts sooner than others.
This year spring has been quite cold, although we had some nicer, warmer weather. It's only in the past week or so that I've really felt the shift towards summer.
