It's May

Here in the Philippines, May is the month of fiestas and the month of Mary. Fiesta photos

It is also the pre planting season, preparing to plant when the monsoon arrives, so it is a busy time...

In the US, it is simply a lovely month.




TRALALALA

But even in the US, it is the month of Mary for Catholics still remember this song, made famous in the play "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect up?"



and then there is Hopkin's poem: Excerpt:
All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathising
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood....
This ecstasy all through mothering earth
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth
To remember and exultation
In God who was her salvation.