Hot Summer Orchids
Mark Twain didn’t actually say “the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,” but that quirky quote certainly describes our unusual weather. With chilly fog blowing in from the cold Northern Pacific, today we’re greeting summer in Pacifica with a high temperature of 52°F (11°C.) While other parts of the country are baking in a heat wave, our furnace is running. Contrary to popular belief, we do sometimes get heat and sun in the summer, but autumn is usually the season when our fog recedes and temperatures heat up.
Of course, I’ll still welcome summer, and the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Maybe these photos from April’s Peninsula Orchid Society Show will inspire Mother Nature to send some summer heat our way. Happy solstice.
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