Summer Solstice Time Travel

Summer Solstice at the UMass Sunwheel - Amherst MA
Photo by Sharon Vardatira

As we wade through day after day of weirdly cool, hazy, smoke-laden skies, just keep in mind that June is upon us, and one of these mornings we will wake up to a day exactly like this – mackerel sky, with wafting white cumulus clouds against a blue sky. And, in the meantime, anyone who has the 2023 Head in the Clouds Amherst wall calendar is seeing this photo all month long. One of the perks of creating the calendar is always including one of my own photos – I captured this scene at the UMass Sunwheel (our own local Stonehenge) on Summer Solstice a few years back. I was seeking an “Outlander” back-in-time experience. Seemed like the perfect summer place and day for time travel.