The planet Saturn will be visible low on the southeastern horizon. By the end of July, far Neptune will pass within a hair's breadth of Saturn, making for a really fine view in binoculars or a telescope. While you're in the neighborhood, look for the brilliant Lagoon Nebula, just to the right of the lid of the teapot. In a telescope you can observe the horseshoe-shaped dark lane that cuts the nebula in half and gives it its name. There was a time when people measured the seasons not by calendars but by the rhythms of nature.
Stargazers still maintain a vestige of that long habit.
Rising in the east are the stars of the summer triangle. Above it to the northeast is Deneb, the top star in the northern cross, which consists of the brightest stars in Cygnus, the Swan. Brightest of all is Vega, high in the eastern sky in the constellation Lyre, the Lyre. Best of all is the Milky Way, a wide, misty stream of light that passes from Sagittarius in the south, through Aquila and Cygnus, and then into Cassiopeia in the north. The eagle and the swan seem to fly over the Milky Way, which is really our own galaxy seen from the inside.