“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”
Happy May Day! Wherever you are, I hope the sun is shining and the sky is blue in celebration of the day. Here is a bit chilly but still lovely. I think Miss Gracie and I will take a ride later. A pretty day ought never to be wasted.
I remember making a May Basket out of construction paper during art class. We’d decorate the sides with flowers using our crayons. I always drew daisies. Either that or every flower no matter the kind came out looking like a daisy. Art was never my strong point. We’d cut a handle and glue it to the sides. The glue was in bottles and had rubber stoppers cut at the top. My fingers always got so gluey that the paper stuck to them. I remember a red basket I carefully carried home for my mother. On the way I picked dandelions to fill the basket. I always had to hold my basket by the bottom as the handle was delicate and was barely held to the sides by the glue. I always knew my basket was a work of art.
When I was in Ghana, I made all my cards except for Christmas cards. Those I could buy. They had Ghanaian scenes and were hand painted by the art teacher. The cards I made for the other holidays were on white paper folded like little books. I’d cut pictures from magazines and glue them to the pages. The pictures were meaningful to the recipient and me. Little sayings were written on each page. My mother saved a Father’s Day card I had sent and gave it to me. It must have taken me hours to find exactly the right pictures. They too were glued. Luckily I had learned the gluing skill in elementary school.
My tulips have opened. Some are red; others are multi-colored. They highlight the garden. This morning I stood and surveyed the front yard as I do many mornings. The birds were singing, the sun was warm and the garden looked lovely. I would stayed a while more, but I knew my freshly brewed coffee was probably ready and I had my papers. It was time for Sunday rituals.
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May 1, 2011 at 11:27 am
Happy May Day to you too Kat.Finally a sunny ,somewhat warm day today here in the NW.
Around here it seems old man winter wants to linger around.
May 1, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Morpfy,
It’s only 51° today but the sun makes me feel as if it is really spring. My sister in Colorado had her lawn covered in snow yesterday morning.
May 1, 2011 at 11:34 am
Almost time to uncover & prep the BBQ,Haul out the lawn mower & prep it.Now to find out a way to keep the pesky moles from making speed bumps in the yard from keeping me from mowing too fast.
May 1, 2011 at 3:21 pm
morpfy,
No moles here but the lawn is pretty darn high, and I’m getting excited about BBQ season!
May 1, 2011 at 11:39 am
Some sun, some clouds and a small shower today. I feel that I´ve been spoiled by the warm weather we´ve had here lately because now when we have normal spring temperatures again I feel cold 🙂 I´ll start a fire in the stove in a minute.
I´ve never heard of a May basket before so I really don´t know what it is or why they are made. Over here and most parts of Europe may 1st is a day for demonstrations. It´s the only day beside our national day that isn´t a religious holiday.
We had a glue called Björnklister, that would be Bear Glue in english, that we used when we needed to glue things we made for holidays. I love the smell from it and some kids loves that smell so much that they eat the whole jar of it 🙂 🙂 🙂 Thankfully it´s absolutely non toxic 🙂 🙂
Have a great day now!
Christer.
May 1, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Christer,
I’m a little cold today. The furnace has been off for a while, but even my nose is cold today so that furnace may need to heat the house for just a short while.
“May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half of a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and neopagan festivals such as Samhain. May Day marks the end of the unfarmable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.”
I don’t think our glue had a name, but now they have Gorilla glue which I bet is a bit toxic.
May 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Hi Kat,
Today in North Texas the sky is gray and rainy. Thunderstorms are predicted for tonight. May Day was never celebrated when I attended elementary school in Texas in the 1950s. May Day was always the day that the Soviet Communist party would celebrate the revolution with tanks, missiles and troops marching in Red Square. Thousands attended the parade under the watchful eye and somber face of Nikita Khrushchev and the other party big wigs. We, here in Texas, were practicing duck and cover instead of dancing around a maypole.
As a kid I wondered during which drill the atomic bombs would fall. My consolation was that the Russians would miss Dallas for better places like New York and Washington DC.
May 1, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Hi Bob,
I remember those May Day parades as they crossed Red Square and marched by Lenin’s tomb. We did duck and cover too, but after a while, it just didn’t seem all that real to us except during the Cuban missile crisis. Once they “blinked’ though we knew or suspected there would not be bombs raining on us.
May 1, 2011 at 6:07 pm
That’s one thing we have in common … baskets. I collect them and must have a hundred around the house for various towels, electric stems, the whatever drawer is always interesting when the mind forgets where something is. Our weather is back to spring a mere 73 degrees with a wonderful breeze off the ocean.
May 1, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Z&Me,
I have a variety of types and use them all sorts of ways including at dinners for rolls and outside for silverware. I love my different baskets.
May 2, 2011 at 9:27 am
We are enjoying a beautiful Indian summer here on the Mornington Peninsula at the moment. The garden is a picture because I don’t have any deciduous trees to deposit dead leaves everywhere. I will do my best to send some warm weather to the Cape. Anyway, the news that Bin Laden is dead should warm you up
May 2, 2011 at 9:48 am
Pete,
The news was spectacular but there is little information. The papers just made the announcement as none of the particulars have been reported. That was a long time coming.
Chilly morning again-send that warmth quickly!