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Edith Holden, today you have been pre-empted for an important message from one Miss Gracie Meitzler. Edith, I have enjoyed posting religiously on Muse Day from your “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady”, but not today, not this Muse Day. Today belongs to Gracie. Gracie and her mom, Carrie, gave my garden TLC while I . . . → Read More: Gardener Bloggers’ Muse Day – July 2011 The month of June, per Edith Holden’s “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady” … In the old Latin calendar June was the fourth month. Ovid states that this month received it’s name in honour of Juno, other writers connect the term with the consulate of Junius Brutus. Probably however it has an agricultural reference, and . . . → Read More: Gardener Bloggers’ Muse Day – June 2011 The month of May, per Edith Holden’s “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady” … The name of this month is of doubtful origin. Ancient writers suggest it to be derived from Maia, the mother of Mercury; to whom the Romans were accustomed to sacrifice to on the first day of the month. And from the . . . → Read More: Gardener Bloggers’ Muse Day – May 2011 The month of April, per Edith Holden’s “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady” … The name of this month is derived from the Greek word fo ‘opening’. In many countries of Europe the first of April has for long been appropriated to a facetious custom for which no satisfactory origin has yet been assigned. To . . . → Read More: Gardener Bloggers’ Muse Day – April 2011 The month of March, per Edith Holden’s “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady” … As in the Roman year, so in the English ecclesiastical calendar used in 1752, this was the first month, and the legal year commenced on the 25th of March. Scotland changed the first month to January in 1599. This month was . . . → Read More: Gardener Bloggers’ Muse Day – March 2011 |
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