Midsummer? Wasn't that a few days back?

This Friday is Midsummer’s Eve.  You may wonder about this having noticed the longest day (Midsummer Day) was actually on Monday.
The truth is there is the geographical midsummer, which was on Monday, and the official Swedish Midsummer, always held at a weekend.  As you can see there are plenty of flowers in our garden - just as there should be at midsummer.
Being a little pedantic I noticed that both the Daily Telegraph and The Independent explained that on the longest day sunrise was at 4:45.  This is only true in southern England, close to London, but the journalists didn’t seem to feel the need to mention that, or even for a single “about” to qualify their statement. The residents of Truro (sunrise 05:10), Edinburgh (sunrise 04:27) or Lerwick (sunrise 03:39) are probably used to the London-centric press and were not even slightly surprised.
Here in Härnösand the sun came up at 02:47 and set at 22:53. Between those times we had dusk which turned into dawn without passing night.
Sometime I must travel up to Northern Norway. In Tromsö the sun hasn’t set since mid May and will finally set sometime in mid-July!
I hope there's a really good turn out in the British EU referendum. I also hope the vote is for "Remain", but even if I'm disappointed there I hope most people get out and actually vote.

f you are in Britain I hope you are voting "remain" tomorrow, but even  you're voting "Leave" it'll be good if there's a large turn-out.

The extra is of one of our Iris, just opened up in time for Midsummer.
"Glad Midsommar"!