June 20, 2012
At 6:30 a.m., the temperature was already 75 degrees on the first day of summer in the Washington area, as runners and bikers took to the Mount Vernon Trail in Arlington, Va. Arlington resident Jane Campbell, not pictured, who runs the trail daily, said, "I'm out here at 6:30 in the morning because I don't want to be out here at noon, when it's going to be in the 90s. It may be warm with a little bit of humidity, but it beats midday heat."
Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post
June 20, 2012
Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice in New York's Times Square. Thousands of yogis gathered on Times Square for the event, which featured four free yoga sessions in celebration of the longest period of daylight of the year.
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June 20, 2012
Gregory Liason, 24, left, and Curtis Bellamy, 47, get their watering in early at a rented garden spot along Enterprise Road in Mitchellville. The pair live in Baltimore and lease a 50- by 210-foot plot in Mitchellville, growing tomatoes, peanuts, pimento peppers, cabbage, corn, beans and pumpkins. All this without a well or irrigation, relying on hand-watering and rain from the heavens.
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June 20, 2012
A Kashmiri boy jumps into the Nigeen Lake on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges.
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June 19, 2012
A pup gets a drink of water while lying in the shady grass of LaPorte, Ind., trying to cope with Tuesday's 90-plus-degree temperatures.
Bob Wellinski / LaPorte Herald Argus/AP
June 20, 2012
A cat heads for an open window at a house in North Beach, Md.
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June 20, 2012
Early on the first day of summer, the crab boat Half Bushel makes its way out of Fishing Creek in Chesapeake Beach to work on the Chesapeake Bay.
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June 20, 2012
Jacob Perez washes windows on U Street on the summer solstice, which is the longest day of the year and the first day of summer.
Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post
June 20, 2012
Maximus retrieves a ball thrown by his owner, Jacob Pierce, not pictured, in the Four Mile Run stream at Shirlington's dog park. Pierce, 31, takes his 2-year-old lab mix quite often to this slow-running stream in Arlington County for exercise. The summer solstice began Wednesday, with temperatures reaching the high 90s.
Linda Davidson / The Washington Post
June 20, 2012
Maximus takes a break with his owner, Jacob Pierce, 31, after chasing balls in the Four Mile Run stream at Shirlington Dog Park.
Linda Davidson / The Washington Post
June 20, 2012
Rowers take part in the Thompson Boat Center competitive training program as the sun rises over the Potomac River. Wednesday was the summer solstice, which is the official beginning of summer and the longest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. The start of summer brought high temperatures.
Matt McClain / The Washington Post
June 20, 2012
Early in the morning on the first day of summer, Waverly Atkins of Alexandria casts his line from the pier in North Beach in Calvert County.
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