May Day

    Happy May Day to all in the Tudor collecting world.  Up here in New Hampshire we are lamenting - "Where, oh where, are those flowers of spring?"  The snow was deep and has reluctantly left our yard - or mostly so.  There is still a three foot wide patch slowly melting under one hedge.  We give it two more days.  Then it should all be gone.

    We've had only one bed of early dwarf tulips in bloom by the stone wall.   They are so cheerful when we need it most.  And some small blue drops have greeted us, too.  The rest still seem to be resting, even though peonies are pushing through.  The grape hyacinths have hardly stirred.   Ah Well !  Ah Spring!