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There are a few things this neighborhood can count on to keep us seasonally aware. Body-painted bike riders trickling in from Fremont in June, a line around the corner from Murphy’s each March…and the Morris Dancers greeting May.

Kimberly wrote to Wallyhood to share the specifics about this year’s May Day dancing:

The Sound and Fury Morris Dancers, Seawitch Women’s Morris, and the Mossyback Morris Men will be greeting the sunrise at Gasworks Park on May Day morning this Wednesday, May 1. Dancing begins around 5:45 am and ends around 7:00am. There will also be the singing of traditional English …

The open space above the Fremont Troll is being transformed from a former homeless encampment, as local residents turn the space into the new Troll’s Knoll Park.

Thanks in part to a $25,000 grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, supporters are finishing a design plan for the new park, which prioritizes natural habitat. The Friends of the Troll’s Knoll is a community group dedicated to maintaining green spaces around the Troll through clean-up, park development and art installations, including a moss-covered turtle.

Wrote supporters:

Our vision for the Troll’s Knolls Park expansion is to create a welcoming, sa…

The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave N) gets a steady stream of odd, interesting, experimental performances by local artists, thanks to the Wayward Music Series.

Every once in a while, one performance comes along that sounds so striking that I want to write about it, but I’m just at a loss for words. This is one them. Here it is:

SKINESPHERES
MUSIC of the PLANTS & other earthly dances
Live Music Soundscape by Rocco Strain / Eco-Sensuous Costume Design by Shelby Mae / Choreography by  Iván Espinosa
Thursday, April 4th 7:30 PM
Chapel Performance …

May Day is an ancient holiday, dating back at least to the days of the Roman Republic, when it was celebrated as part of the Floralia celebration on April 27th. Obviously, they didn’t call it May Day back then, both because it wasn’t May and also because they spoke Latin. It can also be traced back to the Gaelic Beltane celebration, reaching back into the fog of pagan pre-history.

Here in Seattle, several groups of Morris dancers have been celebrating this ancient holiday in the chilly dawn hours at Gas Works Park. Kimberly writes:

Join the Sound and Fury Morris …

April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of such, I took a pedal around to the three spots where you can consistently find public poetry in our neighborhood.

The Poetry Bench at Eastern Ave N at N 40th St had a piece by Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) out:

Abou Ben Adhem Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold:— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem…

I’d like your opinion on something. Let’s call it the “Sidewalk Squeeze”.

Your typical Wallingford sidewalk is three squares wide, each square measuring 2′ across. That adds up to a healthy 6′ of breadth, enough that someone stumbling home from a late night at the Leny’s or the Grizzled Wizard can do a bit of weaving without trampling anyone’s lawn.

But, of course, Wallingford is home to many a healthy garden and a bevy of bushes, many of which encroach on that 6′. A slew of succulents sluicing the cement, a mass of moss meandering across the walkway, or a …