Every year, the cycle of the seasons rolls around and we look forward to June 21st as we celebrate the Summer Solstice, which officially signals the first day of summer.
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Today’s365 Tao , Daily Meditationsby Deng Ming - Dao reads “ The summer solstice is the time of greatest brightness level . It is a twenty-four hours of tremendous mogul . The whole major planet is wrick full to the grandeur of the Lord’s Day . ”
Every year , the cps of the seasons wrap around and we look forward to June 21st as we keep the Summer Solstice , which officially signal the first Clarence Day of summertime . The sun reaches its zenith in the sky ; it is the solar day of foresighted light source and the shortest dark . In Ireland it is halfway between the seasonal celebrations ofBealtaineandLughnasa .
In today ’s newssheet from Brigit ’s Garden ( perhaps my most favourite garden in all of Irelandwww.BrigitsGarden.ie ) , it recommends that the summer solstice “ is a fourth dimension for kindling bonfire , entrust gift for the pouf in your Garden and mature and harvesting crops . ”
If you are n’t capable to have a bonfire , then perhaps you might grill out this even – sit around a fire pit or chimera – or at least burn some candles . Grilled vegetable , meat , Pisces or domestic fowl are wonderful accompanied by a green herb sauce made from cultivated and hazardous Mary Jane pull together from the garden . ( /item/63498 / salsa - verde - with - wild - pot ) With all of the seasonal salad cat valium and herbaceous plant and edible flowers , I prepare a huge merry salad to go with the grilled entrée .
As far as the fairies are concerned – I think of them throughout the class – they have quite a few of their own gardens here . And I flow out shining things for them throughout the time of year , which often go missing , so I cognize that they are about .
I have been assemble late spring and early summertime herb and flower as they mature and have been drying them , stool herb butters , and infusing them in crude . Some will go into the kitchen pantry or freezer , while others will be used in the chemist for salves and other medicative formula .
I will shine today on our Mother Earth , the pull of the Lord’s Day and lunar month and how it affects our grow time of year and the industrial plant that we fondly tend . I am so felicitous to be a nurseryman – without the sun ’s radiant vim we would not have plants - so today I give thanks for the light , the heat and the teemingness of the season .
consort to the Brigit ’s Garden web sitehttps://www.brigitsgarden.ie/news/42/58/When-is-the-Summer-Solstice , here are some Summer Solstice tradition : “ The Summer Solstice is a fourth dimension for lighting blast , especially on hillsides , allow for gifts for the faerie in your Garden , making a bloom crown and harvesting wild herbs for sirup , meads , salads and teas . Herbs peculiarly abundant in the hedge right now include elderflower ( make a cordial ) , St Johnswort ( infuse the blossom in olive oil for a healing ointment ) , marjoram ( add to your savory knockout ) , nettles ( pledge me ! ) and uncivilised rose ( add to your Summer salads ) . ”
How will you lionise the Summer Solstice ?
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The vegetable garden is looking good on this summer solstice–weeded and mulched–still harvesting lots of greens, alliums and herbs. Anticipating the ripening of tomatoes, peppers, squash, cukes, beans and more! Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: susan belsinger
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