Joninės – or Saint John’s Eve – is an exciting midsummer’s celebration that brings communities together in the outdoors around blazing bonfires. This, the shortest night of the year, is filled with magic – the festivities include making oak leaf wreaths and leaping over flames, and young people are encouraged to go out and look for fern flowers. They say ferns only bloom once every 100 years, on a special night, in a special place...
