 Solstice Sunrise over our central standing stone. | Theresa here... Solstice Blessings to everyone! Today (June 21st) is the longest day of the year, when we celebrate the life-giving heat of the Sun. Today Bear & I try to be outside the whole day, staying in touch with the Sun and watching how it travels slowly across the sky. Sometimes we go places where it's easier to see the sunrise and sunset, but this year we are staying at our tiny homestead, to see what it's like to connect with the Sun in our own yarden. We watched the sunrise and marked where it happens in our stone circle. I am trying to spend the day relaxing (which means not working in the garden). I am wondering about the yard, trying to stay in the moment. There is so much life, even in our less than 1/8 of an acre yard. I celebrate all the plant and animals that we've welcomed into our yarden (If you look closely, you might see some bugs on some of the flowers...): |
 Evening primrose, which has some edible parts, although we don't remember which.  Native rose, also edible.  The first tomato!! |  A fancy lily from the previous home owners- we don't know if it's edible like the native daylily.  Edible Turkish rocket flowers  Edible "weeds" lamb's quarters and chickweed. Yum. |
Bear celebrated in a more traditional guy way- sleeping with the cats in our catio:
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Soon we will go inside for a while to make our amazing World's Best Honey Vanilla Ice Cream:
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If you feel like a few laughs, you can watch the video of Bear making ice cream
we did a couple years ago.
we did a couple years ago.
Here's our Solstice flame (a little bit of the Sun), our abundance charm (with a citrine geode on the left), and our hope for how we can live the rest of our Summer (and our lives):
Do what you love,
and do it as often as you can.
For more ideas about how to spend the day, see our Celebrate Summer Solstice page.
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