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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2026-05-01 05:30 pm

We'll tell you of a blossom and of buds on every tree

Rabbit, rabbit! For May Day, I made a garland and [personal profile] spatch photographed me. The inspiration was [personal profile] nineweaving.



The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.



Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.



In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.



The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.



Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.

And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) that [personal profile] osprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2026-05-01 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, how lovely! My childhood backyard was a sea of violets, blue and pied—but I never met their spirit until now.

Nine