Happy Solstice!

Happy Solstice! For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the first day of summer! While agricultural festivals abound here, those that live in the Southern Hemisphere are looking forward to the waning of winter, and I can’t blame them!

Did you know the word “solstice” comes from the Latin words sol “Sun” and stitium “standing”? On the summer solstice, the Sun’s path stops advancing northward each day and appears to “stand” still in the sky before going back the other way.

Pretty cool, I’d say!