It’s the longest day. The Summer Solstice. Midsummers day. After weeks of heavy rain today has been bright and sunny. Quite hot too. Lovely photographs on social media from Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor and Avebury of the sunrise just before 5am. F,or the first time in years I didn’t celebrate it. I was up watching dawn break, but quietly indoors, then went back to sleep. This evening though it was this image of a pale crab spider, on a dark dahlia leaf undercrossed by the blue of catmint that sums up this special day. The natural world is relaxed. Growth is strong, sunshine hot, soil warm. It’s easy. It is also easy to forget that in 6 months it will be dark at 4pm. Cold and the natural world in dormancy. Everything we see here will have ceased to be, though of course it is just waiting for the days to lengthen. Tonight though, a time of joy, promised flowers, bountiful and strong in the June sunshine.
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