WELCOME, MAY.....

"The job now in hand was May baskets, for it was the custom of the children to hang them on the doors of their friends the night before May-day; and the girls had agreed to supply baskets if the boys would hunt for flowers, much the harder task of the two. Jill had more leisure as well as taste and skill than the other girls, so she amused herself with making a goodly store of pretty baskets of all shapes, sizes, and colors, quite confident that they would be filled, though not a flower had shown its head except a few hardy dandelions, and here and there a small cluster of saxifrage." (a type of herb called Greater Burnet).

~ FROM A WRITING BY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ~

~ MAYPOLE DANCE~

I HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF DOING THIS WHEN I WAS A CHILD. WE WOULD PRACTICE EACH AFTERNOON, DURING RECESS, AND HAVE OUR "PERFORMANCE" FOR THE PARENTS ON MAY 1ST IN THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. ALL OF WE GIRLS WOULD WEAR OUR BEST DRESSES AND HAVE RIBBONS IN OUR HAIR TO MATCH THE RIBBONS THAT WE WERE GOING TO WRAP AROUND THE MAYPOLE.

MAY BLESSINGS FROM LILY...