#solsticeblessings

[beegoddess]

“On this sun-drenched turning point, may your stories burn bright, your ships sail strong, and your favorite fanfic finally update.”

[carolinayourspiritmaster]

The sun is setting in Tenerife, while we enjoy our Solstice very much with plenty of fantastic food, champagne cocktails, great conversations, and these three lovely bears 😊. Wishing you a very blessed celebration!

[enlightenedfern]

12 zile de solstitiu

[ashenalchemy]

The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which, bright gleaming berries glistened. The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that dull petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone. Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see, who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door

`Come in.' exclaimed the Ghost. `Come in, and know me better, man.'

-A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Photo by me, model Joe Sabourin.

[thesorceresstemple]

[0witchy-bitch3]

More solstice tea! This time an iced mint, lemongrass and citrus green tea. Perfect Litha drink to accompany some computer work in the garden 🍊🍵💛

[devilflowers]

Happy Yule!

[pussy-king420]

happy midsummer!! i celebrated by making a flower garland and honey cake 🌼🌿🍰

Here's my honey cake recipe!

180g softened butter

180g honey, I used half honey half my dandelion honey

3 large eggs

150g self raising flour

30g ground almonds

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp rosewater

3 tbsp milk

1 1/2 tbsp poppyseeds

juice of 1/2 an orange

3-4 tbsp honey

chopped walnuts or pecans

preheat your oven to 180°C, and grease and line a cake tin

cream the butter and honey together, then beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well between additions

add the vanilla, rose, milk and poppyseeds in and mix before sifting in the flour, almond meal and baking powder

mix until smooth, then pour into the cake tin and bake for 40-50 minutes (although this will depend on how shallow your tin is, or the shape)

while the cake is in the oven, heat the additional honey with the orange juice until dissolved to make a syrup, and mix in the chopped nuts

when the cake is cooked, poke holes with a skewer and pour the syrup evenly over

serve (preferably) warm with crème fraîche and strawberries and enjoy!