Sunset. June 4th.

After a fairly cloudy chilly start to the day yesterday, the afternoon became sunny and warm, unexpectedly.
  At 9.00 pm, as the sun was beginning to sink in the west, there was a beautiful sky. 
I watched as the clouds changed their colours several times, with golden edges, or darker purple grey, to orange tinges. 
The sun's rays reaching upwards, stretching out in tapering bands from behind the darker one, above the deepening orange glow beneath. The sun taking it's time to slip below the horizon. 
It was quite a display.  
There are 17 calendar days left now till Midsummer Day, Summer Solstice, when here in the Northern Hemisphere there will be the longest hours of daylight on June 21st, before beginning a gradual reduction each day until the Winter Solstice on 21st December. 
I cannot believe that we have almost had half of a year already. It sees to go by so quickly these days.