Here in Niagara, Mother's Day is also a blossom day. Where it is the Niagara orchards or the ornamental crab apples, there are always blossoms on Mother's Day.
The next picture is what a garden club/horticultural society plant sale looks like 5 minutes before 200 people descend in a feeding frenzy. There were about 1,200 plants from member gardens and wholesale donations.
One may think of all the member hours that go into a plant sale. But there are a lot of Dollarama products that go into it too. The pretty green table clothes, the metal sign stands, the dots on the pots that indicate the price point, the popsicle sticks with the plant names. Perhaps Plant Sale day is our Dollarama appreciation day too.
We've traced the roots of Mother's Day in previous years. Anna Jarvis., the founder, had to work hard to get it established. The U.S. created it with a bill that was signed in both houses in 1914. President Woodrow Wilson was given credit for the idea of the official Mother's Day at the time.
How did the commercialization happen? Hallmark Cards and their greeting cards, made it happen.
Where are we now with this commercialization? Sign onto Google today and see the Google Doogle: a series story of a pregnant cactus and her journey as a mother from giving birth to her baby cacti, to taking care of it and finally living a settled life with the grown up babies. I consider this one a bit weird.
Another hour before Spring is here at 6:29am. Poets have given us beautiful Spring verses for as long as there have been poets. So let us revel in its first moments.
In Spring, everything is full of promise.... The child sporting upon the lawn, and the season, sympathize together, and nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness. ~Charles Lanman, "The Dying Year," 1840
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective
The year’s at the spring And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hillside’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven - All’s right with the world! ~Robert Browning
It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o’er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. (As You Like It, 5.3.15-20
Our Grimsby Garden Club members planted the town's hanging baskets yesterday at Trillium Hill Greenhouses, located at the west end of Grimsby. This year, the group celebrated the event with a Lilitopia moment.
