Summer Solstice - The Longest Day

[BiggestT]

If you're a true fisherman, the Summer Solstice has great significance as it's the longest day of the year. At least for me it's a special day. I'm not fishing today as my son is getting married this evening. Instead of banging on some fish in a t-shirt and shorts, I'll be squeezing into my tuxedo trying to look fatherly while the guests get all drunk on this the longest day of the year.

Here's one of my favorite passages from "Down to Zero" out of the book "The Habit of Rivers" by Ted Leeson:

The geometry of a summer day is not a perfect hemisphere. It curves eccentrically and elongates time. There is a bulge in the day at evening, as there is in the year at summer, and it is shaped like the bend of the fly rod in my hand, arced to a trout that will in moment break free into the dimming, gold-leaf currents of the Deschutes, where I will watch the last few rises to the last few caddis, down to zero, on a summer-solstice evening, at the best part of the best part of the year.

[el capo]

Good luck w/ the tux Steve.

[Capt. G]

Gosh, I never thought of that.
Do you tuck your tux slacks into your deck boots , or just let them hang on the outside of your boots?
Congrats to you son.

[BiggestT]

Originally Posted by Capt. G

Gosh, I never thought of that.
Do you tuck your tux slacks into your deck boots , or just let them hang on the outside of your boots?
Congrats to you son.

Deck boots? Come on, spit shined dress shoes. It was a good, down to earth wedding. Love his wife. They're still on their honeymoon. Took my Suburban to the Canadian Rockies. I'm sure she kicked the headliner down.