What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?

Big question on a blog with a lovely number. #1111.

My favourite month is May with September as a very close second.

Weather, nature and crowds are my parameters. Late May is a gorgeous, vivid time of year with nature bursting out in all directions . The holiday season has not quite cranked visitor numbers up to intolerable, even if they are essential to the local economy. 

In September Nature is a little dusty and depleted by the Summer and Visitors but the weather is usually kind.

If May is Glamorous,then September is Shabby Chic, both fabulous in their ways.

A bit of googling suggests that my first choice is popular. The second not so much.

I have never worked in education but September always feels like a month of new beginnings and May the sharpness just before the languor of Summer.

May wins because it welcomes Summer but only by a little bit. May also has one extra day.