Titania, queen of the fairies, is enchanted
to fall in love with the first living thing that she sees -
which happens to be Bottom, now sporting the head of a
donkey due to the mischief of Puck. To release Titania from
enchantment Oberon must drop the juice of a certain flower
on Titania's eyes. Puck is sent to gather the flowers.
Please help Puck in his quest! There are six flowers of
the right kind hidden on this site - and a few weedy
imposters as well. Click on the flowers as you find them.
The flowers each lead to a letter of the alphabet - when
you've found them all, arrange the letters to make a word.
That's the filename of the page where you will release
Titania from the spell and receive your award! The award is
a graphic for your site.
For example, if the letters were "eflorw," (they aren't)
the word would be "flower" and the page would be
"flower.html."
Build a huge bonfire. Ancient
peoples welcomed the sun to his highest ascendance with
great bonfires, which some kept burning for days. In
Finland, the bonfire is called a "kokko" and wood for it is
collected through the year. Traditionally Finnish maidens go
naked into the fields at midsummer, collecting wildflowers.
In Finland and in Sweden, if you pick seven different
flowers, you will dream of your future love.
In Sweden, the symbol of Midsummer is the
"midsommarstoeng", a giant cross, clad in birch-leaves and
decorated with flowers. Everyone young and old dances around
the cross all afternoon and into the night.
Treasure the Earth - As the fiery sun begins his
descent towards darkness, our attention turns to the now
fertile "goddess" Earth. Crops are growing and we look
forward to an abundant harvest.
Read a poem at midnight - by natural light, if you
are fortunate to live in a city of the far north.
Attend a concert or ballet - as do the people of
St. Petersburg, Russia, where the summer solstice is
celebrated during the last 10 days of June with art,
performance, and music in the famous White Nights
Festival. Check the midnight sky over
St.
Petersburg via Live Cam which looks down the Moika
River towards Nevsky Prospekt.
In the United States, wait two weeks for Independence
Day, the 4th of July, when Americans celebrate summer
with parades,
picnics, and fireworks.