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May 09, 2008

A Little Bit of May

Motherdaughter_picnic_001Little Flowers seen through the cottage windows.

Motherdaughter_picnic_007Weaving, braiding, twisting, ribboning flower wreaths.

Motherdaughter_picnic_013Three pretty little maidens.

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Beginning the procession.

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Carrying flowers to the fairest.

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Motherdaughter_picnic_026Crowning the fairest maiden in the land.

A bower of flowers for the Mother of our Lord and our own Blessed Mother.Motherdaughter_picnic_031

Motherdaughter_picnic_017But wait! What's going on over there?

Motherdaughter_picnic_018It's the serpent whose head she crushes.

This was nature study for the day, readers.  It was a king snake ingesting another snake.  It had almost completed its meal when the boys found it and they (being boys as boys will be) proceeded to pull the snack out of the king snake's mouth. 

Gory sight, but the children loved it!

And, being homeschooling mothers, we just stood there with our fingernails in our mouths and allowed the boys to finish their show-and-tell.

Motherdaughter_picnic_032_2Then the finale!  I just knew, when I saw my friend Wendy and her daughter Emma had gone A-Maying, I just knew our Little Flower's Mother-Daughter Old-Fashion Picnic and May Crowning would not be complete without a May-Pole.

Motherdaughter_picnic_033Thank you to the boys who caught the snake, who dug the hole, who pitched the stick, who belaced the May-Pole that the merry maidens danced and sang around.

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Beautiful pictures, Cay! Thanks for sharing.

It looks like a beautiful day and lots of fun.

Cay, the sixth picture (little barefoot girl walking in the grass with her back to camera) is a supper snapshot...cropped, you could use it in one of your writings, perhaps.
Oma

Beautiful!

Oh, what super pics. I love the sunshine and the maypole!

Just Beautiful Cay, Happy May!

I've read this post several times and enjoyed it each time. You simply can't go wrong with little girls in dresses, flowers, wreathed heads, and ribbons. The drapery and flowers for the crowning were perfect. It made me start humming, "Sing of Mary" from our old choir days.

Oh, Wendy! our "old choir days". You make me want to cry.

Absolutely stunning!!!

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