May Day
Happy May Day, All.
This is true… this was a tradition back in the early American settler days… it was borrowed from our Euro-pals where May Day goes back to more Pagan stuff. But in England, they still celebrate, depending where you live, by jumping from bridges and singing songs and dancing and stuff.
Sing songs, dancing dances, and stuffing stuff sound like fun. But jumping from bridges?? Be careful what bridge you’re jumping from or the date May 1 will be on your tombstone. :-p
Have a look into the maypole dance and it’s symbolism. There is all kinds of wacky stuff associated with May Day.
-Rob
Perfect timing for an interjection Rye.
Pete… Ha! Yah… there should be some water below that bridge and it shouldn’t be troubled…
Rob… Wiki has a nice doodah about it.
Jack… hee hee! … and I miss Portland.
Hmmm…perhaps Jimmy Chow is finally burying the hatchet?
A much nicer ring-and-run than the Halloween version. I hadn’t heard of it, but I may try it some day. As for the maypole streamer dance, we learned to do that in elementary school and loved it. I always get a secret grin when I am reminded of the less innocent interpretations of the tradition, but what the heck. It was springtime and it was fun, and that’s the whole point.
Dada… I’d wouldn’t bet on it. He’d probably leave her a trash basket.
Kona… I gatta tell ya… the drive this weekend thru Shasta was gorgeous! The color palette was amazing! Lots of different greens, a flowering pink tree, the bright red-orange dirt… and the brilliant white of snowy Shasta made me wanna run thru the meadows with a basket of flowers and sing “THe Hills are alive….”
I like the cheese rolling tradition where brave and/or stupid contestants chase a giant wheel of cheese off a cliff.
Welcome back brig… You may find it interesting that “Wheel of Fortune” is on location in Portland this week.
When I was growing up in Salt Lake City, we used to go Valentining — after dark on Valentine’s Day, slip a card under the front door, ring the bell and try to get back out to the street to look innocent before anybody opens. Sort of weird interactions if you got caught, especially if you’re Valentining the same kids you already gave mandatory Valentines to at school that day.
Does Randie have a mysterious suitor out there?
Maybe Twinkie has a secret sweetheart and those flowers are ment for eating.
I remember doing the drop-flowers thing when I was a kid, I’d leave them at the neighbor’s house.