Colett today....beautiful still, a homebody still, and Mom's buddy still. I hope she never changes.

This is Colett's graduation picture. Bangs were fluffy in the 80's. Wayne always called it the Woody Woodpecker phase.

This is Colett in Jr. High. She has those big beautiful eyes that everyone notices. They are a very different color..... golden brown, almost the color of a hazelnut.

The song we sang to Colett throughout her life was "You are my Sunshine". She really is. She was a shy child and a Mommy's girl and stayed pretty close to home. She was always a respectful, loving and really good girl even during those teen years. She has always been a goal setter and accomplished anything she wanted to do. She is now a stay at home Mom for my three beautiful grandchildren. She is very artistic, still beautiful and still close to her parents...which we love. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray, you'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.

Happy May Day everyone!!

May Day (May 1) is a spring festival celebrating human fertility and the renewal of nature. It's a meopagan
festival, a saint's feast day, and a day for organized labor. In many countries, it is a national holiday. The festival originated with the celebration of the Roman goddes Flora and spread to other countries of the Roman Empire. May Day was especially popular in England during medieval times. Activities centered around the maypole, a tree collected from the woods and brought to the village to celebrate the upcoming summer. The pole would be hung with greenery and ribbons, brightly painted, and otherwise decorated, and served as a central point for the festivities.
May Day was also a time for dancing around the maypole. In the 19th century, people began to braid the maypole with ribbons by weaving in and out in the course of a dance. Other later traditions included making garlands for children and the crowning of the May Queen. Often times when this was going on, some sneaked into the woods for temporary sexual encounters . It was this latter activity that Purtians found objectionable. By 1644, May Day had been banned
by the English Parliament although it reappeared when Charles II took the throne in 1660. However, the overt sexuality of the festival went underground during the Victorian period and May Day was transformed into a celebration of England. In the United States, we generally give our neighbors and friends a small basket of flowers attached to their doors as a May Day gift and to mark the happiness of Spring.

This Photograph was taken by my Uncle Richard Marchant. It truly reminds me of Spring.