It’s the Merry Month of May! Perhaps I’ll watch the old musical Camelot (Lerner and Loewe) to celebrate. I feel a particular affinity for this King Arthur tale since it premiered five days before my birthday in the year I was born. Fortunately, I’ve lasted a bit longer than the show, since it closed three years later!
I’ve been trying to do more seasonal things this year. My TBR list includes such classic spring reads as Enchanted April by Elizabeth VonArnim, Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge, and, to satisfy my cozy mystery “musts”, I’m reading The Cruelest Month by British writer, Hazel Holt. I’m also trying to add in a bit of spring poetry. I want to try A Poem for Every Spring Day, edited by Allie Esiri.
Spring flowers are peppering the yard. My primroses are popping, and lilacs are in full bloom. Most of my herbs survived the winter, however, the rosemary took a hit from those subzero days. I will need to trim it back quite significantly. Our garden is now plowed (thank you, Ed Harper!) and ready for plants. I hope to visit the greenhouse this weekend. My grandma always told me not to plant anything before May 17, but she lived in Fulks Run, and I think the nights may be a bit colder there than in the metropolis of Broadway! ☺
I’ll close my ramblings with a quote from Tirza Garwood, an artist and writer from the previous century. Her observation about the month of May sums up my own thoughts well. “I am so happy sitting here that I find it very difficult to write at all. The smell of May wafting over the orchard wall from the outside lane is so strong and lovely that I feel it should be doing me good in some way! The pony munching the sweet clover has collected round her the flies which might otherwise be irritating me, and the cuckoo is cuckooing down in the willow grove”
What are your plans for spring? Gardening? Reading? I invite you to join me on my Substack blog and let me know what springy things you’re up to this year.
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Talk to you next month!
Tammy
