May 21, 2010
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May Daze….it’s what I’m in.
Did you realize that Spring is now 2/3 over? Wait, Spring! Slow down, I want to enjoy you some more!
Four-year-olds love to play soccer in May showers….
These photos taken from under an umbrella…
Big girls like to play in the mud, too…
Who says you can’t swim on a rainy May day?
Big sister Emma has her fourth May piano recital, making this Mimi wonder where did so many Mays go?
When I was a little girl, I would beg my mom to stop the car and let me pick a bunch of these May bloomers….
Now that I’m a big girl, I stop often….
to see them up-close and personal…
When I’m driving through my Ozarks, I love to spy a prototypical Ozarks homestead…
and another…
May means time for hay….
….and growing babies…
[disclaimer: Contrary to Diamond T protocol, not all calves are black...]
May is for Mother’s…and Mimi’s…Day…
and for peony season…
and, yes, for snowballs….
Last evening, just before sundown, the horses had some unexpected visitors.
My indoor May Daze have been spent working on my current pet project…helping compile a book of stories and pictures from Ozark County’s one-room school days….
My husband’s grandfather is in this old photo from 1900…
and in this one, my mom is walking to school with her friends, the Morrison sisters, about 1942. They’re carrying their lard-pail lunch buckets, probably containing a homemade biscuit-and-bacon sandwich…
And this is how my daze in May end…
…with an intoxicating walk down to close up the chickens, the air heavy with this scent of Spring…
Wishing you all honeysuckle-sweet May Daze!
Comments (6)
BE-UT-IMOUS!!!
What a wealth of images! I don’t know WHAT to comment on. I think you have about six posts here. I guess I love to see the old photos best.
This is just so cute, all of it! No, I just can’t believe spring is 2/3 over. It is my favorite season and it is so short! Your old pictures are so fun to look at. Those sisters lined up like little ducklings on their way to school are adorable. And the flowers…oh my!
I can just smell that honeysuckle! What a lovely look at May!
I SO look forward to your posts. Don’t you love the Ozarks? I’ve lived all over the U.S., and this is one of my favorite places to be….
Your mom and mine must be from the same era as I remember mom talking about the lard pails they used to carry lunch in. Only their sandwishes were on bread with bacon grease………nothing else. She lived to be 85 and didn’t have a cholestreral problem………..go figure. lol