May Day…

A tree is seen in a field covered with flowers, in Oinoi, near the town of Pyrgos in the Peloponnese. It is traditional for Greeks to collect various kinds of flowers and weave them into wreaths on May Day. The wreath is known as ‘Mais’ or May.

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