I hope everyone had a wonderful midsummer weekend. Ours came and went so quickly, it's as if midsummer didn't even happen. Our weekend was rather so traditional with the dressing of the midsummer pole in wild flowers, a sill and snaps lunch, dances and games around the pole, croquet, a grill dinner, and quite a lot of drinking, laughing and chatting. This is how it looked...
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| The raising of the midsummer pole. |
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| a symbol of fertility... |
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| peonies may be my favorite! |
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| the pickled herring and snaps lunch being set |
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| we each got a booklet of traditional songs to sing together and skål together |
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| No midsummer is complete with out wild flowers... |
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| or Swedish flag... |
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| or many empty bottles! |
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| we were pretty in pink! |
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| we started being a little silly |
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| or very silly |
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| or very very silly |
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| a little rosé perhaps? |
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| oh my man is soooo handsome... hehe |
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| A very heated croquet match was played by the boys, while the girls enjoyed the sunshine |
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| and explored the insides of flowers |
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| The grill was started |
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| Choritzo, ribs, and beef were served |
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| yum |
The rest was history. Many hours by the dinner table and then a few by the water. This was the calmest midsummer for many of us in many years. Though none of us woke with horrible hang overs (like the majority of Swedes through out the country probably did...) we all looked rather tired during saturday morning's breakfast.
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2 comments:
What is the history of the midsummer celebration. It is all so beautiful!
oh great!! seems like u had an amazing time!!
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