Midsummer day is starting out cold and cloudy with the wind blowing sharp from the northeast. Even the normally buoyant jays look a little forlorn in the trees. Even still, it is Midsummer and I prepared the hearth for the summer. The fire is gone. The chimney is swept and clean and all the ashes are brushed away. Unless this is a cold, short summer (which it mght be), the hearth fire shouldn't be lit until Winter Finding (Sept. 22).
I decorated the hearth with gold foil, pine cones, and a candle arrangement to make it look nice. This weekend after the Midsommarfest, I will bring back the flower crown to lay in the hearth. It will be burned at Winter Finding (or possibly sooner), to show the end of summer.
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