Daily A~Musing #56: The Merry Month of May

May rocks!  And not just because it's the month of my birthday (which also rocks because ya'll know how important CAKE is to me...), but because of a bunch of other stuph as well.


Okay, so let's get some sorta list going here, shall we?  Cuz I know how much you just LOVE my lists:


MAY ROCKS CUZ:

#4  Apple Blossoms are my favoritest flower.  They bloom in May, they leave in May.  In September they turn into apples, which is another one of my favoritest things so it's a fragrant and beautiful precursor to yummy things to come. (This pic is mine...I took it right outside Hannaford in Windham).

#3  Lilacs are gorgeous and elegant and tend to always bloom around Mother's Day.  I have a lilac bush planted right in front of my porch so I can sniff their luxurious scent on my way to and from the house.  It's a nice little blip in my daily journey to remind me to...well...take time to smell the flowers.

#2  Beltaine is a pagan holiday, also known as May Day.  Maypoles, Maybaskets (remember those?  putting candy and/or flowers in a little paper basket, leaving it on people's doors and running away?), etc.  I'm not gonna go into Beltaine in detail at the moment cuz I think it deserves its very own spot sometime.  However, if I have piqued your curiosity, check it out.  It's pretty cool.

#1  MY BIRTHDAY!!!!  (Did you really think I'd make a list without it?)  Every year since I was 21 I have had a bottle of pink champagne and a cake for my bday.  I also save a little spending money for myself to buy something utterly frivolous because I rarely do that any other time of year (buy anything for myself OR buy something frivolous...I'm a practical girl).  This year I bought myself earrings.  I love earrings.  But I digress....  (This pic is also mine...this was my cake this year.  And it WAS delicious.)


So, there you have it.  The merry month of May.  The month of flowers, sunshine, nourishing rains, and some of the best people ever born.