Next week is going to be one long celebration in my family. My son Bjarne will graduate from High School, and on the same day we will be celebrations the turn of the light with the bonfire. All Danish Celebration means preparing lots and lots of food, so I have been busy gathering berries from my garden. I have picked the tiny woodland strawberries that cover my garden where ever I don't want any weed to grow. These strawberries are ten times as sweet as the large strawberries you can buy at the grocery, so you only need a few to make an ice-cream tasty. The gooseberries still taste sour, but I am going to put them in a pie, and give them a mid-summer flavour by adding some elder flowers.

I love spending time picking berries in my garden, it is like the time stands still. Ebbe and Selene eat berries now, but at the moment they prefer to eat all the blooming flowers. I am going to bring them with me to Silkeborg for the first time, so we have also been gathering food for them, for the celebration. Selene will be wearing her new floral dress, and Ebbe is going to have his hair cut. He saw how I gave our dog a summer cut, so now he wants a summer cut as well.

Ebbe and Selene's mid-summer food

After the bonfire I am of to a Viking party, and the following weekend my mother will turn 75 years old. So I will stay in Silkeborg for two weeks. I am not going to be able to upload to my blog, so I will update you when I return to Als.

The best Mid-summer wishes

Marianne