Summer Solstice & the Strawberry Moon

Lake Michigan … strawberry moon by Ken Scott Photography

The Northern Hemisphere marks the annual summer solstice today (June 20, 2024) at 4:51pm. The summer solstice is the point when the sun reaches its highest and northernmost point in the sky & the moment that summer officially begins. Also, even though it is always the longest day of the year.

Just like back in 2016 when Ken took this photo of the full moon over Sleeping Bear Bay, we will once again be staring at a big & beautifully full Strawberry Moon. According to the Farmer’s Almanac who popularized moon names in the 1930s, the “strawberry moon” name comes from the Native Algonquian tribes who lived in the northwestern US. The Ojibwe, Dakota & Lakota also it to mark the full moon to be harvesting wild strawberries. This year it will be full at 9:08pm on Friday the 21st.

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