Happy May Day!

Eliot Hodgkin, 'May', from 'The Months', 1951. The first broad bean, strawberry and cherry, as well as flowers I always associate with May - apple blossom, hawthorn and lily-of-the-valley.

Open

Lily-of-the-valley is the birth flower of May. A legend tells of a nightingale’s enduring love for this flower, each year returning in May to sing to his belovéd, & ceasing when her flowers fade. For this reason the lily-of-the-valley symbolises the ‘return of happiness’. #MayDay

Julianna Bibor

Female Northern Cardinal ❤️

Hannah Page, a baker from the US makes art with bread #WomensArt

Arnold Lobel

Aaron Morse

Geraniums in a Vase - Jeannette Slager

Evening plans

Art by Maggie Vandewalle

One thing I like to tell my students, especially before we go outside or on a field trip, is pay attention to see what you notice. I want you to notice at least 4 things. When we are back in class, I ask, 'What did you notice?' It's a good reminder to be present, to look, to see.

“For broken dreams, the cure is, dream again and deeper.” C.S. Lewis

Image: Moonboat by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1920s
#FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

A writer makes heavenly dreams of mundane things…
Or tries, at least

A 392 year old Greenland Shark in the Arctic Ocean, wandering the ocean since 1627.

Sweet dreams, everyone ♥️
(Art by Amanda Clark)

This is what starfish larvae look like.

📽: Igor Adameyko

A tree is not really an individual, it's a community. It's formed in a network.
~D G Haskell, The Songs of #Trees
#nature #EarthDay #books

💚🦖 Happy Earth Day! (Tiny T. Rex art by Jay )

#EarthDay2024

Have a TREEMENDOUS Earth Day! 🌎🌳