Well, we made it! December 21 has arrived, and not a moment too soon. Time to celebrate in the Northern hemisphere.

This is a Solstice edition of the regular ET Friday photoblog which, because this is an exceptional day, I suggest, exceptionally, should be open to anything that may come to mind, photos, videos, stories, drawings ...

rg did a lot of the heavy lifting I had planned to do by way of preamble, here, in his excellent Lo the Darkness diary.

So, I'll just hand the controls over to you.

Happy Solstice one and all!