Ye Olde Beltane

 Sharing with Saturday's Critters!

Very small critters, ants are needed for peonies to bloom healthily.

Anthropomorphized May Pole Dancers

Maypole dancing in 2008 after I retired and moved to Black Mountain NC.

From The Crones Grove FaceBook page

Whisper in the Wind (circa 2018) by British textile artist Fiona Gill

A day late, my rabbit to wish good luck to everyone on the first of the month.

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May pole dance Sunday at 5 in Asheville NC sponsored by Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS)

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Since few of my blog friends commented yesterday, I'll just add a couple of shots showing the results of the rallies in support of the laborers in our lives.

Raleigh NC had thousands of teachers march for better pay (they are at the bottom of the 50 states) and for the NC legislature to finally agree upon a budget...since they are the only state not to have done so yet.

Protesters gathered in Asheville below.

World wide efforts to have people over billionaires.

My attempt to capture the full moon the night of April 30/May 1...

At dusk...

At 1 am.

Teaching teachers

In my life I've taught pottery, watercolor, sketching, goddess history, and some computer uses.  I admire especially those who teach teachers how to teach.  I worked in prevention of substance abuse by teaching some teachers and school counselors how to teach a curriculum or two back in the 80s...and that's the extent of my efforts to teach how to teach.

So I'll just share some photos that were on line by my teacher in sculpting clay, Nan Smith of the University of Florida.  She didn't post these when I got my BFA in ceramics (I don't think there was FaceBook in 1983).  Thanks, Nan, for all the fun and mistakes and corrections and supportive critiques!

Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week!