The cover star for this month’s Convivio Book of Days Calendar is a freshly-leafed swamp maple that resides outside my family’s home in Boca Raton, Florida. I bought it at a native plant sale probably 15 years ago, a little tree in a little pot. Now it’s much taller than the house. Here, in this strange green land, swamp maples drop their leaves and sprout new ones in a matter of a couple of weeks. This one is donning the fresh new green of spring… or summer, for by traditional reckoning of time, we enter summer with May Day, Beltane, as the calendar shifts from April to May. The month is full of days summery or that conjure the idea of summer.
The calendar is a printable PDF, standard letter size. It’s a fine companion to what you read here on the Convivio Book of Days, and it’s our gift to you each month. Enjoy!