PartyTime - Big Time!

This week is midsummer week in Sweden, and everyone is planning for the weekend celebrations. I've walked around my garden with my cellphone camera to document the lingering daylight and late night skies (below), flowerbeds and other details, I want to remember coming winter.

From Wikipedia: The summer solstice occurs exactly when the Earth's semi-axis is most inclined towards the sun. Though the summer solstice is an instant in time, Midsummer is in Sweden refered to the day on which it occurs - the day of the year with the longest period of daylight.

View from my hammock

We've all done it at least once on midsummer´s eve: as young girls we've picked small bouquets with seven different flowers and sleep with them under the pillow hoping to dream of our future husbands...

More from Wikipedia: In Sweden, Mid-summer celebration originates from the time before Christianity; it was celebrated as a sacrifice time in the sign of the fertility.
It is one of the most important holidays of the year in Sweden, and probably the most uniquely Swedish in the way it is celebrated. The main celebrations take place on the Friday between June 19 and 26, and the traditional events include raising and dancing around a huge maypole. Before the maypole is raised, greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole.

Painting by Anders Zorn

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