May 1, 2011
Toronto, ON

May Day May Day! Happy Beltane (as it's called in ye olden Celtic tradition.) I'm resposing on my couch after a lovely, wet and delicious evening. I had my ladies over tonight to celebrate said ancient holiday in style. There were flowers and feasting, a May Queen or two and of course, a Maypole fashioned from an old cedar trunk I found up in Grey County. But that, gentle readers, is another story in which once again, a man with a can of beer and a chainsaw saves the day.

It's been quite an amazing week in Sweetland. I've been getting lots accomplished, going to my dance classes and plotting the glory of the coming summer months. Friday night I played a show up at The Flying Chestnut Kitchen in beautiful Eugenia, ON. A place I had never been. Quel aventure! The show was great fun, and the restaurant soooo incredibly delicious. Many thanks to my old pal Charlie Glasspool for inviting me, and Chef Shawn Adler for the fantastic company, (and the best midnight grilled cheese sandwich I've ever had.) Not to mention the first bonfire of the season! I took some cool photos on my drive up that I'll post here as soon as I have time to upload them.

Tomorrow I'll be packing my bags and all my gear into Ruby the Van and driving East into the sunrise ... Going up to Farm Heaven for a week of writing and recording with musical partner-in-crime Captain Dirt. Expect mysterious farm photos and exciting country tales coming soon!

Honey bees and daisies,

x

K

 More spring photos here!

May 1, 2010
Toronto, ON

Happy May Day from grey and lovely Torontonia! Woke up at a reasonable hour ce matin and enjoyed a delicious Beltane champagne brunch at Eddie Levesque's. Mmmmmm. Fontina cheese and truffle oil scramble ... 4ever! Tonight, I'll be celebrating my very favourite ancient pagan holiday with a special concert in the Fleishman Gallery @ Wonderworks. Come early for a screening of my newest "Adventures in Sweetland" video. Wine, cheese and fairy cake reception to follow. Obviously. And perhaps we can even scrounge up a Maypole ....

Love & honey,

MayQueen

 Mayday Mayday ... With Bill Bourne in lovely Leslieville

May 1, 2008
Dalkeith, ON

Mayday Mayday! Hope you are all fabulously well on this most decadent of days. All is supreme here in country-fried farm heaven. I've been very active and getting loads of cool things done. Have also been working hard at mastering the lost arts of leisure and pleasure. This has included the preparing of majestic feasts, reading books for fun, tromping though puddles in my new rain boots and partaking in some very civilized lawn sports. My daily farm photo project has turned out to be entertaining as hell and everyday I cannot wait to see what will come out of my camera! Stay tuned! 

xo

Tulips from heaven

May 1, 2007
Toronto, ON

HAPPY MAY DAY!

I just can't help but love the supreme glory of May. Perhaps it's because I'm a May-baby or perhaps cause it usually means that Spring is finally and truly upon us! (No more freak Ontario spring snow-storms...please!) Couldn't find a maypole to dance around today but got to enjoy the Morris dancers doing their crazy stick dance outside the restaurant where I breakfasted this morn. Had yet another great day in the studio today with the amazing Stephen Fearing. Have posted some new photos from the studio sessions and there's more to come soon! Lots more fine guests coming to play on the album in the next couple weeks and then we are done!! There will be much celebration in the streets... I am sure. 

Till soon, xo K

In the studio Sweetland-style... more photos here!

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May 1, 2004
Toronto, ON

Happy Happy May Day. How I love this day! Must be 'cause I'm such a May baby ( I get to turn 29 on the 10th....) Am in Toronto with my dear friends Kt, Missy and Melissa celebrating the day with honey mead and possible excursions out-on-the-town. So long as I get to dress up- I don't care. Tomorrow I head back to London to prepare for a month of house and poodle-sitting while my parents are gallivanting about Italy. Lucky them. I'll wash the dishes take out the garbage and mow the lawn. My time has come.

will report soon,
Lady K

May 1, 2003
Sperryville, Virginia

Lovelies, Happy sweet and delicious May Day- my most favourite day of the year. All is so glorious and green in gorgeous Virginia and I am so incredibly happy to be here. Heading out the the Smokehouse Winery- fine makers of honey wine for a May Day celebration gig and other fine and sordid goodness. The sun shineth and the bees buzzeth and all things good seem to flow. Yippeeeeee!

In Sperryville, VA with Miss Jenny (in front of the REAL authentic Dukes of Hazzard car...no lie) havin' some catfish, coleslaw and bluegrass tunes down at Cooter's Garage.

April 1, 2003
London, Ontario

Greetings sweet lovelies, 

Happy April Fools!! Ahhh the spring it comes finally.... Even tho it's a wee bit of a brrr one today, Raven the dog and I are still supremely psyched at the excellent meltingness of snow (which means WAY more forest walking fun and other said goodness.) Have just returned home from a lovely trip up to Ottawa for gigs and friends and art gallerying and museum visitation. There's a "Mysteries of the Bog People" exhibit on at the Museum of Civilization and I could not resist the lure of the illustrious Bog Man. Was a bit of an archaeology girl in University and have written many a serious bog body epic essay in my time ('tis true!) Had a total intellectual bronze age blast. Also, I've been listening to the "Life of Emily Carr" book on tape by Paula Blanchard while driving and am SO incredibly passionately in love with Emily Carr and her story. It's even more exciting for me cause it's set in Victoria, BC in way yonder day (late 1800s early 1900s) and I have been learning much craziness about the history of my old neighbourhoods and haunts. In other news I have been keeping busy with much music work, but also finding time for the ever important fun and I just can't wait for warm weather and tank tops and rolling in grass... Mmmnnnn grass rolling.... Altho, I am quite enjoying the slowness of spring and am loving every second of the end of my first full (and totally frickin' brr) winter I've spent in Ontario in over 8 years! And I even got to have a true Canadian maple moment the other day when my darling friend Mary Beth took me out to her family's sugarbush-in-the-woods. It was my first adventure of the maple syrup shack variety and I was truly overcome by the glorious goodness of it all. Imagine: big blazing woodstove in little shack in the wood cranking out the heat with simmering vats of maple sap steaming up the air with sweet sugary yum. The ultimate steam bath of heavenly goodness! I am sure there is nothing so delicious in this world as wood smoke and maple steam. Mmmmnnnnn delish!

So, in terms of my upcoming travels, I'll be heading to Toronto this weekend the play with James Keelaghan at Hugh's Room, then it's off to Michigan for "Ladyfest"and then down to the the Blue Ridge mountains of sweet Virginia for some May Day bonfire extravaganza... Hope to see y'all out in the yonders.

xo, k

Little Raven and her Alligator on my bed.