19 days!

It is May 1st everyone! May Day!

I remember in my youth making little bouquets of flowers, secretly picked from  gardens up and down Oak Ridge Avenue, tying them with ribbon and leaving them on the doorstep of houses in the neighborhood as a May Day offering.

The part that my friend Gay Parker and I liked best about this was ringing the doorbell, leaving the "gift" and running to hide behind a tree across the street to watch the reaction of the recipient. The unsuspecting resident would come to the door look around and hopefully look down to see this sweet little sign of spring. More often than not, a woman would come to the door angry already that the neighborhood kids were up to something and they were fed up with it (not seeing the flowers on the doormat at her feet).

Fact is, she was right. We just liked ringing doorbells and running away and May Day somehow make it legitimate. Here's a fact about the early 1960's hidden in this story. There was someone home in most houses any time of day to come to the door when the doorbell rang. We didn't just wait for May Day, it was one of the many things on our list that made life fun.

But the inspiration for this post is that May is wedding month and we are counting down!
Great things ahead!