Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
– Thomas Tusser
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| Ground Ivy |
Sweet May hath come to love us,
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on.
– Heinrich Heine
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| White Campion |
Among the changing months, May stands confest
The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
– James Thomson
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| Dame's Rocket |
Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
– Thomas Bailey
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| Honeysuckle |
What potent blood hath modest May.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Swamp Buttercups |
Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.
– Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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| Celandine |
Photos © 2016 by A. Roy Hilbinger
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