April Firsts - Garden Bloggers' Muse Day

I usually love the combination of photos and poems for Muse Day!

If you'd like to participate and/or read some great posts,
head to Sweet Home and Garden Chicago,
a garden blog by Carolyn Gail.

Would you like a little information about the first day of April?

From Wickipedia:
April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on fool's errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. In some countries, the jokes only last until noon: like UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool . "Elsewhere, such as in Ireland, France, and the USA, the jokes last all day. Another origin is that (at one time) April 1 was counted the first day of the year in France. When King Charles IX changed that to January 1, some people stayed with April 1. Those who did were called "April Fools" and were taunted by their neighbors.

Would you like to read lists of births, deaths, and important events that happened
on April first? This is another Wickipedia site.

Would you like to read another list of people born on April first?
Click here for this information!

Would you like to read famous quotes by people born on April first?
Click here for this information!

Did Wickipedia list all the historical events that took place on April first of any year?
Click here for this information!

If you want to know what is happening on April 1, 2009
use a Google search for a plethera of items!

One thing you probably won't find...
Shady Gardener and "Mr. SG" are celebrating
their (30+ years) wedding anniversary!

There may not be a post for a few days.
Believe it or not, it's the truth. ;-)
Happy Muse Day!

It's Nearly April First!

In honor of April Fools' Day,
A poem by Eugene Field.

A Play on Words
(to be read aloud rapidly)

Assert ten Barren love day made
Dan woo'd her hart buy night tan day;
Butt wen knee begged she'd marry hymn,
The creel bell may dancer neight.

Lo atter fee tin vein he side
Ant holder office offal pane--
A lasses mown touched knot terse sole--
His grown was sever alw Lynn vane.

"Owe, beam my bride, my deer, rye prey,
And here mice size beef ore rye dye;
Oak caste mean knot tin scorn neigh way--
Yew are the apple love my nigh!"

She herd Dan new we truly spoke.
Key was of noble berth, and bread
Tool lofty mean and hie renown,
The air too grate testates, 't was head.

"Ewe would due better, sir," she bald,
"Took court sum mother girl, lie wean--
Ewer knot mice stile, lisle never share
The thrown domestic azure queen!"

" ' T is dun, no farebutt Scilly won--
Aile waiste know father size on the!"
Oft tooth the nay bring porte tea flue
And through himself into the see.

:-) Have a Great Day!
SG