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Near Record Set! 2nd Most Visited Day

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We had the second-most visits ever on Friday, May 1, 2015! HUZZAH!

We had the second-most visits ever on Friday, May 1, 2015! HUZZAH!

I was flabbergasted! I checked on the statistics for this site last week — who doesn’t like to know how often people are checking in and reading something you have to say? — and guess what? There were 135 visits to the site on Friday, May 1! That is the second most busy day we have ever had here at stephenmorrisauthor.com! The most popular post on May 1 was the one featuring the Lily of the Valley, the Folkloric “flower of the month” for May.

Another surprise was that 100+ of those visits on May 1 were from readers in France! 🙂

What was the #1 most busy day, you might wonder? That was April 4, 2014 when we had 145 visits — only 10 more visits than last week! The most popular post on that day was the one about Emerald, the traditional birthstone/gem of May. May folklore certainly seems to be popular! (These two posts are generally among the most popular in the archives here but the daily visits rarely reach into the stratospheric heights recorded on April 4 last year and May 1 last week!

I also discovered last week that there are 78 readers who follow my blog through the Goodreads website. (That’s in addition to the 400+ readers who follow the blog via Facebook.) It was great to see how many people follow the blog through so many different venues. I’m amazed!

Lily of the Valley

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Lily of the Valley is considered a "masculine" plant, dedicated to Mercury and associated with the element of Air. If you dream of Lily of the Valley, it can be indicative of a desire to flee the constraints of day-to-day life or re-discover the simple joys of nature.

Lily of the Valley is considered a “masculine” plant, dedicated to Mercury and associated with the element of Air. If you dream of Lily of the Valley, it can be indicative of a desire to flee the constraints of day-to-day life or re-discover the simple joys of nature.

Lily of the Valley, the flower of May much as emerald is the birthstone of May, since Maia, the daughter of Atlas, was the mother of Mercury. The flower is known by many names: May Lily, Our Lady’s Tears, and Jacob’s Ladder among them. (Daffodil, known as “lent lily,” and the well-known Easter Lily make this May Lily part of a springtime lily sequence.) Associated with the planet Mercury for astrological purposes and the healing gods Apollo and Aesculapius, the Lily of the Valley is a potent plant for magical medicinal purposes and for increasing mental abilities. It can therefore be considered related to the suit of Swords in the tarot deck.

However, all parts of the plant are highly poisonous, including the red berries which may be attractive to children. If ingested—even in small amounts—the plant can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and a reduced heart rate.

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