Tis the Merry Month of May
Despite the fact that May is my birth month I have always loved this spring month best of all. Lily of the Valley is traditionally the flower associated with the month of May and is also one of my favourite flowers. I learnt just recently from my mother that on the day that I was born at a country cottage hospital my father brought her a big bunch of lilac to the hospital and a couple of days after I was born walking in the grounds to the hospital there was a big patch of lily of the valley growing there. Mum picked a bunch. It is such a lovely flower. Tis the month when everything starts to spring into life, the blossom on the bushes giving the gift of beauty and of perfume, the month that traditionally says goodbye to winter - thank goodness. But it is also Beltaine - another click in the wheel and she has moved yet again - ever forward taking us on a journey to our destiny our fate. It is the journey that we learn most from. The Celebratio...