telcodad I guess all the Druids will be heading for Stonehenge this evening (and tomorrow morning?):
Yeah, the big solstice celebration was this morning:
Druids, pagans and revelers celebrate summer solstice with the rising sun at Stonehenge
PBS - June 21, 2025
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/druids-pagans-and-revelers-celebrate-summer-solstice-with-the-rising-sun-at-stonehenge
As the sun rose Saturday on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a crowd erupted in cheers at Stonehenge where the ancient monument in southern England has clocked the summer solstice over thousands of years.
The crowd gathered before dawn at the World Heritage Site to mark the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, beating the heat during the U.K.’s first amber heat-health alert issued since September 2023. Temperatures later topped 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in Surrey, 80 miles (128 kilometers) east of Stonehenge, the hottest temperature recorded in the U.K. so far this year.
About 25,000 sun devotees and other revelers, including druids, pagans, hippies, locals and tourists, showed up, according to English Heritage which operates the site. More than 400,000 others around the world watched a livestream. ….
