Today was the summer solstice. It was the longest day of the year. Well, not actually the longest. It was still a 24 hour day. The difference is that there were some 15 hours of daylight today. So when people say it is the longest day of the year they really mean to say it was the day of the year with the longest amount of daylight. Summer solstice signals the first day of the season of summer. It's all down hill from here. Each day will now have less and less daylight. It doesn't really matter these days how much daylight we have each day but 75 to 100 years ago farmers relied on more daylight each day to get the work done in the fields. These days corporate farmers do things differently I'm sure. Very little manual labor to work the fields. Things are different now.

The summer solstice is also a religious day in many religions. Because I'm not a religious person and could care less about what it means to those who need religion, I will not write about what the summer solstice means to those religions. If that is something you are interested in, you can go to this site and read all about it.

The summer solstice is also a party day for self-styled druids and new age followers. Some 20,000 gathered at Stonehenge to see the sun rise and celebrate the longest day of the year. Everyone has some bandwagon to jump on. Good for them. I hope they enjoyed it. For me, it was just another day. Nothing special. I don't think I would travel there, get up at the crack of dawn in the cold and the wet (like it was today) just to see the sunrise on the longest day (of daylight, that is) of the year.