gloaming

twilight. dusk. a.k.a. when the fireflies come out & the cicadas are in full chorus.

activities

this weekend, a 4-hr float trip down Cedar Creek with beer & innertubes. and then our 3rd annual bicycling tour of gardens. with this year, many new friends attending.

all very fun. and a sign that summer's end is near.

a.word.a.day gloaming

gloaming 

 

PRONUNCIATION:

(GLO-ming)

MEANING:

noun: Twilight; dusk.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English gloming, from Old English glomung, from glom (dusk). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy, and cholera.

 

at sunset

america

the holiday weekend a very wet & cloudy one. but rain or shine, fireworks have been exploding all over for days.