“Oh, what is so rare as a day in May,
When the great sun shines like this!
When the soft winds woo, all tender and true,
And breathe on one’s cheek like a kiss!
When the sky is so blue—ah—heaven’s own blue!
And the birds in the greening trees
Are bursting their throats with rapturous notes…”

~Jean Wright, “A-Maying”
Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& May celebrant)