Julia McKay - Photojournalist: 365

SUNSHINE IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!

Even though we've had some "zipper" weather recently (hot then freezing and back again) I'm just glad I don't have to wear extra layers, boots and more.

Things to look forward to in June:

My parents wedding anniversary

Finally making it to a fastball game

Spring cleaning and opening the windows (and then central air)
Using my new Fitbit Charge (I had a flex before)
CAMPING!!!!! (I missed out last year)
The end of construction at work
Movies in Market Square
Birthdays - John and my mom

June 1, 2015 - flower petal pile in the corner

June 2, 2015 - Sophia Skorenky, seen here during a practice at CaraCo Field in Kingston, Ont. on Tuesday June 2, 2015, is a Grade 12 student at Marie-Riviere French Catholic High School and is off to compete at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations in Toronto in the 200m and 400m races later this week

*EXTRA* June 2, 2015 - Sophia Skorenky, seen here during a sprinting practice at CaraCo Field in Kingston, Ont. on Tuesday June 2, 2015

June 3, 2015 - Grade 2, 3 and 5 students from Lord Strathcona Public School, along with representatives from Loving Spoonfuls, the school board, pose for a photo in the schools new Grow Project garden in Kingston, Ont. on Wednesday June 3, 2015. Working in partnership with Loving Spoonfuls this is the seventh garden the Limestone District School Board has started at one of it's schools.

*EXTRA* June 3, 2015 - Grade 2, 3 and 5 students from Lord Strathcona Public School, along with representatives from Loving Spoonfuls, the school board, pose for a photo in the schools new Grow Project garden

June 4, 2015 - Frontenac Falcons' Shamus Barr reaches to connect with the pitch from Napanee Golden Hawks' pitcher Josh Murphy during the third inning of the Kingston Area Secondary Schools Athletic Associations baseball semi-final game at Megaffin Park, in Kingston, Ont., on Thursday June 4, 2015. The Falcons beat the Golden Hawks 2-0 to move on to play the Bayridge Blazers in championships on June 9

June 5, 2015 - Grade 7 and 8 students from Frontenac Public School enjoy the fruits of their labour after spending the morning making burgers, chips, and all the fixings at Burger Club held at Essence Restaurant at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ont. on Friday June 5, 2015. The pilot program is the extension of the Enactus St. Lawrence College's Slow Cookers for Kids program that looks to teach food and financial literacy to youth in a new way.

*EXTRA* June 5, 2015 - As their new tattoos say, Family Fights Together, which is what Ryan Rettie, left, Chad Campbell, Shayne Jarvis, Adrian Schwarz, Jake Jarvis have done for Sam Eastman, who is battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The guys pose for a photo at Rettie's home in Inverary.

June 6, 2015 - flowers in the setting sun light

June 7, 2015 - Mom's birthday dinner

June 8, 2015 - Kingston Fire and Rescue, in a joint effort with the Canadian Coast Guard, completed a successful water rescue in Kingston, Ont. on Monday June 8, 2015 off the shore of Lake Ontario by Kingston General Hospital.

June 9, 2015 - Debra Rantz has been announced as the incoming Director of Education for the Limestone District School Board, in Kingston, Ont. on Tuesday June 9, 2015. Rantz will take over from retiring Brenda Hunter starting Aug 4, 2015.

*EXTRA* June 9, 2015 - The Abrams, from left, James and John pose for a photo in the Kingston Grand Theatre on Tuesday June 9, 2015. The brothers are playing in the Hometown Country Celebration in Kingston

*EXTRA* June 9, 2015 - Nature seen up close and personal

June 10, 2015 - colour coordinated

*EXTRA* June 10, 2015 - Rudy likes to watch us play ball

June 11, 2015 - Kingston west-end homeowner, Martin Skolnick looks over a large pile of garbage, including car parts, that has been illegally dumped on the Bayview Bog conservation property, along the top of Coronation and Taylor Kidd boulevards, on Thursday June 11, 2015. Skolnick and his neighbours have seen an increase in garbage dumped on their property in recent years.

*EXTRA* June 11, 2015 - Kingston west-end homeowners are concerned with what they said is an increase in illegal dumping in their neighbourhood and on the Bayview Bog conservation property, along the top of Coronation and Taylor Kidd boulevards.

June 12, 2015 - Ken Cuthbertson, a local author and journalist, seen here in Kingston, Ont. on Friday June 12, 2015, with a mock-up of The Daily Crap, the neighbourhood newspaper he wrote, edited and published as a young teenager. Cuthbertson's newest book, A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century, was released in May with a foreword by Morley Safer.

June 13, 2015 - A night out at the Domino Theatre

June 14, 2015 - breakfast treat

June 15, 2015 - Two Math Quest: Queen’s Math Camp for Girls instructors Asia Zolnierczyk, left, and Yuliya Nesterova, with camp director Siobhain Broekhoven on Monday June 15, 2015, show off some of some paper puzzles Nesterova made by using math to help promote the math summer camp held on Queen's University campus in Kingston, Ont. this August.

June 16, 2015 - fallin in the rain

June 17, 2015 - The M V Quinte Loyalist of Kingston ferry, from Amherst Island makes its final approach to the Milhaven dock on Wednesday June 17, 2015.

June 18, 2015 - lunchtime view

June 19, 2015 - A bronze bust and plaque memorializing Molly Brant, a Person of National Historic Significance in Canada, is located outside Rideaucrest Retirement Home on Rideau Street in Kingston, Ont. on Friday June 19, 2015.

June 20, 2015 - view from inside my tent

*EXTRA* June 20, 2015 - view from inside my tent

*EXTRA* June 20, 2015 - I think she thinks she's hidden

June 21, 2015 - family selfie (dad was already on his way to the ball diamond)

June 22, 2015 - Half the membership of the Kingston Lions Club attended the cheque presentation where they donated $100,000 to the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation for the purchase of a new MRI machine in Kingston

*EXTRA* June 22, 2015 - flowers in the sunshine

June 23, 2015 - Patti Emmerson, a local artist seen here in her studio in Kingston, Ont. on Tuesday June 23, 2015, will be spending next week in Calgary as part of the Artist Ranch Project at the Calgary Stampede. Emmerson, along with three other artists, visited and experience an Alberta working ranch to help inspire the work that will be on display during the Calgary Stampede.

June 24, 2015 - Brothers, Dan, left, Mike and Dave Reid, owners of the Red House, sit outside the new location they are in the process of opening in the city's west end, in Empire Court off Gardiners Road, in Kingston

June 25, 2015 - Ted Reade is looking forward to his retirement while reflecting on 32-years of memories as a teacher in Kingston, Ont. on Thursday June 25, 2015. Reade helped develop computer courses in the late 1980's and has many wonderful memories (and RAM) of his time spent with elementary, secondary and adult students.

June 26, 2015 - Staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School celebrate the last day of school by tossing papers, pens, books and even a cross-walk vest in the air on the front walkway of the school in Kingston, Ont. on Friday June 26, 2015. The students last day was Thursday so the teachers had the entire building to themselves to finish their end of school year clean up.