The Celtic Festival of Beltane

                                           

 

Around this time of year our variegated weigela puts on a magnificent show. I take some time out from gardening to pose beside this pretty pink, floral fountain with doggie.

  

Beltane is, above all, related to things agricultural: here neighbor Ioannis negotiates some pretty impressive slalom manoeuvres   with the tractor   to avoid our stacks of garden garbage and the trees in our olive grove.

Z and I are busy planting our vegetables: tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, aubergines, melons and watermelons – we’re being adventurous this year. Leondaris is getting a bit bored with being tied up as the workers proceed. 

                      

 

Being the Celtic pastoral festival, associated with fertility, we are sure that planting on the Eve of Beltane should provide us with a good harvest – as will the fortuitous rain showers we’ve had since the planting.We won’t be building bonfires, but tomorrow we will light the charcoal for a get-together grill with friends and neighbours. 

 Have a happy May Day and a real belter of a Beltane !