Going a'Maying

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May is the month of Spring, flowers, merriment and .... love!

In days gone past, English lovers would merrily go a-Maying into the springtime forest on May Day.

I bought some vintage postcards recently and discovered within them some clippings from magazines, calendars and the like.  The woman collecting them must have deemed May just too sweet a month to toss, after the expiration of the calendar ....

Vintage Calendar, Month of May

Here it is, subtly carrying on the tradition of the likely much more sensual predecessor of "Maying", in this lovely refined version, with a sweet lady searching for her fellow and a courting couple ... who have already found each other.

Meadow Sweet Grove © V. Buchanan 2018