HAPPY SOLSTICE!!!

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:25 pm

YIPPEE

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:56 pm

Happy shortest night of the year!!

and eve of 19th BD for favorite son! ... and *that* night was one of the longest shortest nights of my life!

(other two offspring are girls who had the questionable taste to be born in the midst of icy winter)...

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:07 pm

Happy muddle o' winter to our friends in the Antipodes.

Shortest night. Who can sleep?

djm

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:30 pm

Bah... I say June 24th is the real Midsummer.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:31 pm

Watch out for that Midsummer Madness, now!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:44 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote:Watch out for that Midsummer Madness, now!

Why?? Is it really bad??

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:53 pm

I was at Stonehenge on a rainy day last week. The English Heritage Society no longer allows the large Newage crowds that once frequented the area near Stonehedge during the Summer solstice. Now you have to politely walk behind the roped-off area. I was hoping to see a few crop circles in the grain fields around Stonehenge, but look as hard as I may, I didn't see a one.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:07 pm

Doug_Tipple wrote:I was at Stonehenge on a rainy day last week. The English Heritage Society no longer allows the large Newage crowds that once frequented the area near Stonehedge during the Summer solstice.

No-one told these guys:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6226332.stm

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:13 pm

chrisoff wrote:
Doug_Tipple wrote:I was at Stonehenge on a rainy day last week. The English Heritage Society no longer allows the large Newage crowds that once frequented the area near Stonehedge during the Summer solstice.
No-one told these guys:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6226332.stm

I have learned to question anything that I read in a travel guide.

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:19 pm

This one is my favorite!!

He's like the real thing!!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:24 pm

jkwest wrote:This one is my favorite!!

He's like the real thing!!
<img src="http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6315 ... ty0as6.jpg" width=200>

Wow! An alchemist in uniform!

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:52 pm

My dad's family has an unusual number of birthdays right now-(between June 20-23) there's about 5 or 6 of us. Heck, grandaddy was not only born on June 21, he died 92 years later on the same day.....

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:31 pm

Doug_Tipple wrote:I was hoping to see a few crop circles in the grain fields around Stonehenge

Aren't you supposed to make your own? - for luck or something?

How was your trip? Tell us about Paris!

djm

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:57 pm

Walden wrote:
jkwest wrote:This one is my favorite!!

He's like the real thing!!
<img src="http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6315 ... ty0as6.jpg" width=200>
Wow! An alchemist in uniform!

Those people look so silly!

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:18 pm

Those people look so silly!

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I think that was part of the plan. Not that I have anything against silliness in general, in fact, I'm quite fond of silliness. But that hat is a little, um, over the top.