Quotes

"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May." - Edwin Way Teale

"Winter is many months of the year
But now at last Maytime is here;
And birds sing from a leafy screen
In the trees and hedgerow freshly green;
And the wood-anemone is out in the shade,
With its blushing petals which too soon fade;
Once more the bracken is unfurling there,
And bluebells gently perfume the damp air."
- Veronica Ann Twells

"A delicate fabric of bird song 
Floats in the air, 
The smell of wet wild earth 
Is everywhere. 
Oh I must pass nothing by 
Without loving it much, 
The raindrop try with my lips, 
The grass with my touch; 
For how can I be sure 
I shall see again 
The world on the first of May 
Shining after the rain?" 
- Sara Teasdale

"When April steps aside for May,
Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
Fresh violets open every day:
To some new bird each hour we listen."
- Lucy Larcom

"Oh! that we two were Maying
Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;
Like children with violets playing,
In the shade of the whispering trees."
- Charles Kingsley

"In the marvelous month of May
when all the buds were bursting,
then in my heart did
love arise.

"In the marvelous month of May
when all the birds were singing,
then did I reveal to her
my yearning and longing."
- Henirich Heine

"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, Book of Songs

Layout Ideas

Make a scrapbook page that highlights all the opportunities you enjoyed during May.

Do you have certain flowers or plants you include in your garden each year? Create a scrapbook page that shares why you love to include each plant!

Create a scrapbook page that shows how you experience spring through each of the five senses.

Do you see birds or spring flowers outside your window each day? Take photos of your favorite as-seen-through-my-window spring joys, and create a scrapbook page about the cheer they bring into your life each May.

Create a layout with photos themed around spring play in the breeze (think about flying kits) or in the trees.