Summer solstice 2012

• Summer solstice -- whered it go? Perhaps you were among the many who missed this years summer solstice. It traditionally takes place June 21, which is today. But this year -- sneaky, sneaky -- the summer solstice arrived June 20.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Summer is officially here and Santa Barbara is ushering in the season with a huge celebration, The Summer Solstice Parade and Festival. An estimated 100,000 spectators from around the world came in to enjoy the three day Summer Solstice Festival.
(KEYT)
• STONEHENGE, England — Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly wet summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoicism and wit.
(Huffington Post)
• ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images 21 June 2012: For at least the 4,000th time, observers watch the summer solstice from the megalithic observatory at Kokino, 100 km northeast of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.
(Aljazeera.com)
• Believe it or not, the summer solstice isn't sorcery at all. It's an astronomical event that occurs when the axial tilt of earth's semi-axis is most inclined toward our sun, resulting in the 'longest' day of the year.
(Twirlit)
• WASHINGTON — When the summer solstice arrives Wednesday, it will mark six months until the winter solstice on Dec. 21, when, according to some people's reading of the Mayan Long Count calendar, the world will be destroyed.
(Bangor Daily News)
• The Summer Solstice of 2012 has passed and days are now officially getting shorter. However, during the Salem Summer Solstice 5k/10k this past Saturday, the extra sunlight really only made people able to see the non-stop raindrops more clearly.
(Oregonian)
• AVON LAKE, Ohio - I had a lot of memories from the Summer Solstice Golf Challenge, and definitely more than we could list in keeping these short. Ill list a few from each person, and a few overall.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)