Beltane                                                   New Garlic Moon

Got outside a bit.  Ate lunch with Kate at that hotspot of haute cuisine, Applebys.  We got there just before the after church crowd.  Later on I transplanted a clump of hosta from its exposed location under the cedar I had to cut down (it split in a storm.) to a new location under our still  young bur oak out front.  Took me a bit longer than I planned because I forgot the correct placement of the spading forks to break up the heavily rooted clump.  Had to figure it out all over again.

(a Roman mosaic, ruins of Tomi in Constanta, Romania)

Rest of the day, Latin.  I made progress.  Am very close to the end of Pentheus and my goal is to finish it before I leave for Romania.  I think I’ll make it.  The translation comes much more easily now, a couple of years of hard work to get here though.  Still not facile, but much more so.

It does look like the Latin will help me in Romania with pronouncing Romanian.  There’s the oddities each language has, but the phonetics are very similar.