In honor of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, let us celebrate May 1 with a festival of flowers, a ringed wreath of roses round our heads and spring cheer!Annual dependable hybrid variegated leaf pink calla lily planted in garden some years ago.

As I garden today and spend time watching, weeding, planting, cleaning up leaves and twigs left behind by the winds and watering  – I recall years and all the delights of digging, pruning, blessing new transplants, shrieking with every earthworm encounter and tamping down living, lush and dirty soil.

Sacred moments and quality time in my garden, that is true bliss.