Still More May ~*

May is such a wonderful month. Peepers and baby birds and ducklings and bright new green shoots breaking through the old brown earth at every turn. There's excitement and newness all around. Of course there's plenty of needed rain too. After one particularly gray and gloomy school day, one of our afterschool girls was feeling particularly gray and gloomy, so we went out for a misty walk into the newly greening woods. I happen to love gray, misty days in the woods; the scents are pungent and the sounds are especially clear, so I was more than happy to have good reason to go off alone with one who needed alone time. How can you stay down in such beauty? You can't! And she couldn't either -hurray! It didn't take long before we discovered our first ladyslippers and then 16 more and more trillium than I can remember.

The next morning I eagerly took the morning group out to recount those lovely wildflowers. They too, appreciate the wonderful month of May.

~*Grace