Summer Solstice!

It's the first day of the summer! For all you Druids (?) out there Happy Solstice! More than a few gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate.

STONEHENGE, England - Druids, drummers, pagans and party goers welcomed the sun Thursday as it rose above the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on the longest day of the year — the summer solstice.

Clad in antlers, black cloaks and oak leaves, a group of druids cheered and danced at the Heel stone — a twisted, pockmarked pillar at the edge of Stonehenge.

"Happy solstice!" said Laura Tungate, a 26-year-old financial adviser from Newcastle, who wore a giant rainbow sweater and offered hugs to smiling passers-by.Taking a swig from a mug of vodka and Red Bull, she said she had been coming to the solstice ceremony for the past eight years.

Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plain 80 miles southwest of London, was built between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C., although its original purpose is a mystery. Some experts say the monument's builders aligned the stones as part of their sun-worshipping culture.

Now, we here at the Chronicles like a good party as well as the next. Yet, one thing jumped out at Da Bear whilst perusing this article. Well, okay a couple things....Antlers? Black cloaks? Oak leaves? Red Bull & Vodka? Hmmmm....and she is a "financial advisor". In another, less enlightened time those items may have been viewed as being mutually exclusive. Frankly, I find myself wondering what Arlo in our accounting department does in his spare time.

But, I digress....Happy Solstice!