Happy May Day!

  

   Happy May Day!  Today in Brazil, many people are celebrating Labor Day and the Labor Movement.  In the United States, many Americans are celebrating May Day.  May Day festivities originate from pagan celebrations.  Due to the tilt of the Earth's axis, in the northern USA there is only 8 hours of daylight during the darkest winter days.  In the summer, there is more than 17 hours of daylight.  May Day celebrates the end of winters' cold darkness and the coming of summer's warm light.  

      As children, my sister and I would pick bouquets of wild flowers.  We would brings these bouquets to neighbors' houses and set them on their doorsteps.  We, giggling, would ring the door bell and run away before the neighbors could know who had left the flowers on the doorstep.

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photo courtesy of J. Newberry