May Day
When I was a child, my grandmother always organized May Day activities.
My brother and I would go out to her garden and pick flowers. Then we’d bring them in the house, and grandma would help us trim them up and put them into pieces of construction paper that we had rolled up into cones.
After we had several cones full of flowers, we go from door to door in the neighbor, putting the flowers on the front door step, ringing the bell, and then running away. Of course, most times we just hid behind a tree so that we could see the expression on the faces of people who found flowers that had been left anonymously.
As an adult, I miss those May Day activities. Wouldn’t it be fun to open the door and find a surprise like that on your doorstep? Maybe we don’t have to wait till next year on May Day.
Instead, enjoy these flowers from my yard. Things are blooming profusely in the recent Seattle sun.
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5 opinions for May Day
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May 1, 2007 at 7:10 pm
[...] nearly forgot that today was May Day! No flowers were on my doorstep when I got home (did you do this when you were a kid?), so here are pictures of the flowers in my [...]
Polliwog
May 1, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Lovely post Mary Jo! I wrote about our May Day activities today as well. My children have resurrected the May Day Basket tradition out here on Lopez Island!
Mary Jo
May 2, 2007 at 6:42 am
It’s a great tradition. Since I don’t have children I never continued it, and after thinking about it don’t know what it’s only a thing for the kids.
Making a bright difference in anyone’s day seems like a good thing.
Karen Anderson
May 2, 2007 at 9:04 pm
The neighbor’s children delivered flowers to us. I’d never heard of this tradition before we moved to Ballard.
Mary Jo
May 3, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Thanks for stopping by, Karen.
I grew up with the tradition, and I’m not entirely sure how or why my family adopted it. It’s a nice thing to do, though, and the lesson of making someone’s day a little brighter (unexpectedly) is wonderful.
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