Happy Midsummer To All

[Arctic Fox]

Tremedia önskar Glad midsommar!


No riding here this weekend. It is Midsummer:


View: https://youtu.be/CnBfiQyeDcI

Flower wreath is waiting:

Same with dress & shoes:

But my Imatra trip starts to be pretty close.

They tested this once on Imatra road racing track (main straight ...345km/h)

View: https://youtu.be/zHtEqQ9k74I

 

[atomsplitter]

Looks like a lot of fun, enjoy.

 

[sikatri]

Awesome! One of my favorite celebrations.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Awesome! One of my favorite celebrations.

Do you celebrate it in USA? Any states?

Yes, it is great, you can be outside as long as you want ... it will not get too dark at all. Plus Finland shows its the best sides (nature).

 

[sikatri]

Do you celebrate it in USA? Any states?

Yes, it is great, you can be outside as long as you want ... it will not get too dark at all. Plus Finland shows its the best sides (nature).

Not really. Only at our house, drink a bit, eat and just have fun. It’s not something that gets noticed aside from the weather reporter mentioning the longest day and so on. For people from Nordic countries here, it’s a reason to party. I’m not even sure how many EU countries celebrate it. It’s all down hill as far as days are after midsummer. LoL. Enjoy and party!

 

[Vector]

Do you celebrate it in USA? Any states?

Yes, it is great, you can be outside as long as you want ... it will not get too dark at all. Plus Finland shows its the best sides (nature).

Here in the USA June 20 is the first day of Summer, not mid-summer. We do not have a summer celebration, unless you consider the 4th of July.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Here in the USA June 20 is the first day of Summer, not mid-summer. We do not have a summer celebration, unless you consider the 4th of July.

First day of summer? LOL. What are the 19. first days of June then? Still part of spring season?

 

[Vector]

First day of summer? LOL. What are the 19. first days of June then? Still part of spring season?

Yes, Summer officially begins June 20th.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Yes, Summer officially begins June 20th.

By then your spring needs to much warmer than our summer (average levels). And perhaps our spring is colder than your winter

 

[Vector]

105F today, Nevada desert is HOT.

 

[Arctic Fox]

105F today, Nevada desert is HOT.

40,5C? That would be too hot for me. Unpleasant. I like summer weather between 24C- 25C (optimal). And summer nights should be colder than that; about 15C - 16C. I will sleep better if it is not too hot inside.

 

[sikatri]

Midsummer is a bit of a misnomer. In Finnish the event is Juhannus and it marks the date of the summer solstice, the beginning of summer and ends with the fall equinox. So @Vector you are correct that it is actually the beginning of summer. I don’t know how it ever became known as midsummer, perhaps Shakespeare. Who knows.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Midsummer is a bit of a misnomer. In Finnish the event is Juhannus and it marks the date of the summer solstice, the beginning of summer and ends with the fall equinox. So @Vector you are correct that it is actually the beginning of summer. I don’t know how it ever became known as midsummer, perhaps Shakespeare. Who knows.

Well, as the day time starts to shorter after Midsummer, and via that we'll start to move (unavoidably) against Autumn and Winter little by little .... I like to call it Midsummer. It is the change point. Would be weird to call it beginning of Summer.

Why Summer would be between the summer solstice, and the fall equinox? Equally well summer could then be between the spring equinox and the summer solstice? But it is not either then. Australia etc. (Down Under) is another case....

 

[Rocky]

Interesting conversation.
It just shows you how different cultures handle the same subject differently.
Here in Canada, we handle the solstice the same way as the US.

 

[sikatri]

Well, as the day time starts to shorter after Midsummer, and via that we'll start to move (unavoidably) against Autumn and Winter little by little .... I like to call it Midsummer. It is the change point. Would be weird to call it beginning of Summer.

Why Summer would be between the summer solstice, and the fall equinox? Equally well summer could then be between the spring equinox and the summer solstice? But it is not either then. Australia etc. (Down Under) is another case....

I think it boils down to convention. Agree, I never think of the solstice as the beginning of summer. As you know, but some here wouldn’t, the month of June in Finnish is Kesäkuu which translates to “Summer month”. So internally for me the beginning of summer is always the first day of June / KesäKuu.

 

[sikatri]

Interesting conversation.
It just shows you how different cultures handle the same subject differently.
Here in Canada, we handle the solstice the same way as the US.

It is indeed interesting. I do like the idea of solstice celebrations as well as ones for the equinox. Who doesn’t like to celebrate four times a year!

 

[Arctic Fox]

Interesting conversation.
It just shows you how different cultures handle the same subject differently.
Here in Canada, we handle the solstice the same way as the US.

I guess Atlantic Ocean is big enough of sea. Humans are different; different side of it. Canada is opposite closely connected to USA.

 

[Arctic Fox]

I think it boils down to convention. Agree, I never think of the solstice as the beginning of summer. As you know, but some here wouldn’t, the month of June in Finnish is Kesäkuu which translates to “Summer month”. So internally for me the beginning of summer is always the first day of June / KesäKuu.

Well, our Summer will start beginning of June (3 weeks ago) but it also will end already beginning of August or middle of August. Being short. The climate change or global warming has not influenced on that. Opposite our winters have became warmer and shorter and autumn and spring seasons have become longer (if we think about climate).

 

[Arctic Fox]

I think it boils down to convention. Agree, I never think of the solstice as the beginning of summer. As you know, but some here wouldn’t, the month of June in Finnish is Kesäkuu which translates to “Summer month”. So internally for me the beginning of summer is always the first day of June / KesäKuu.

Looks like you have not forgotten all (Finnish). Are you able to read & understand Kalevala ? Kesäkuu (June) is Juni in Swedish. Pretty close? Maybe Vikings (spoking old Norsk language ... a old common language to whole area of Scandinavia and Iceland) and Scots/Irish/Brits have been able to communicate someway in history?

ow many EU countries celebrate it. It’s all down hill as far as days are after midsummer. LoL. Enjoy and party.

Not many. It is a big thing in Sweden and in Finland. It is important in Norway. Already smaller thing in Denmark. The rest of Europe? In my understandings only Baltics (southern side of Baltic sea) will celebrate it. Latvians and Estonians at least, not sure about Lithuanians.

 

[sikatri]

Looks like you have not forgotten all (Finnish). Are you able to read & understand Kalevala ? Kesäkuu (June) is Juni in Swedish. Pretty close? Maybe Vikings (spoking old Norsk language ... a old common language to whole area of Scandinavia and Iceland) and Scots/Irish/Brits have been able to communicate someway in history?


Not many. It is a big thing in Sweden and in Finland. It is important in Norway. Already smaller thing in Denmark. The rest of Europe? In my understandings only Baltics (southern side of Baltic sea) will celebrate it. Latvians and Estonians at least, not sure about Lithuanians.

My parents had a Finnish Kalevala, I’m not sure where it ended up. As a kid, I read some of it, but didn’t finish it . LoL. I think I could do better now and understand it as well better. My wife is Finnish, I met her when I went to Finland after my university studies. So we do speak Finnish at home and she even got me to read some. I worked in Finland for nearly ten years so I did pickup a lot better understanding than I had as a kid. It’s a shame the old book was lost by my parents. Can’t ask them now, they are beyond asking. LoL. I might see about finding a copy. It really is something I was always fascinated by. Hyvää Juhannusta!