June Already

It is thought that June is named after the goddess Juno or possibly from Iuniores which was the lower level of the legislature in the constitution of ancient Rome.

 

Summer is on the bookshelves with the June plate, The Summer Haze Cottage and my two summery jugs. It looks a bit sparse but I don't really have anything else to add.

 

 

 

Above is one of the double pages showing one of Angela Harding's prints from this beautiful book that I have on loan from the library. It explains how and where she works and is full of her illustrations that have been used in many magazines, pictures and cards.

 

This is what happens in June this year according to my little Almanac book

 

Not a lot of folklore attached to the days of June............. there would have been very little time for celebrating the Saints Days as farmers would have been busy with haymaking and sheep shearing. Watching the weather would have been the main occupation.

Calm weather in June, sets the farmer in tune

 The weather pattern for June often alternates between spells of stormy weather and shorter periods of dry calm. The farmers prefer calm and warm with night-time dew to speed up crop growth.

Other old sayings were connected with St John's Day on the 24th.

I found a children's poem for June by Irene F Pawsey (although couldn't find any details about her) in an old book I have called 'Come Follow Me.- Poems for the Very Young' which was originally published in 1956.

Month of leaves,
Month of roses;
Gardens full
Of dainty posies;
Skies of blue,
Hedgerows gay,
Meadows sweet
With the new mown hay.

Flowery banks,
A-drone with bees,
Dreaming cattle
Under trees:
Song-birds pipe
A merry tune—
This is summer,
This is June.

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Sue