Tomorrow is Michealmas Day.

Happy Michaelmas Day for tomorrow. For me, this means cutting a large bunch of Michaelmas Daisies to bring indoors.

These are beautiful flowers and they take me right back to my childhood. Our garden was full of these flowers and my Mother always cut some for me to take into school with the Harvest Basket. My primary school used to make a big fuss of Harvest and Michaelmas Day and the hall and classrooms would be full of flowers. We would be asked to draw and paint them and make Michaelmas Daisies using mauve sticky gummed paper.

Michaelmas Day is sometimes also called Goose Day. Goose Fairs are still held in some places.

Here are some Michaelmas sayings and this year I shall see if they come true.

The Michaelmas Daisies, among dede weeds,
Bloom for St Michael's valorous deeds.
And seems the last of flowers that stood,
Till the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude. (The Feast of St. Simon and Jude is on 28th October)

If Michaelmas brings many acorns, Christmas will cover the fields with snow.

A dark Michaelmas, a light Christmas.