May Day Blessings!

The energies of the earth have risen to their height and all is fecund and blossoming.

Happy Beltane!

"'Tis like the birthday of the world,

When earth was born in bloom:

The light is made of many dyes,

The air is all perfume:

There's crimson buds, and white and blue,

The very rainbow showers

Have turned to blossoms where they fell,

And sown the earth with flowers."

~ Thomas Hood

The May-pole is up,

Now give me the cup;

I'll drink to the garlands around it;

But first unto those

Whose hands did compose

The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

~ Robert Herrick, The Maypole, 1660