Bowen Island’s first annual Green Man Festival was a roaring success that included great weather, fantastic food, more than fifty kids stepping up to have their faces painted, music, dancing, and victory for the Green Man and consequently, the official arrival of spring!
Team Green came out in force, and their leader made his demand for the changing season without hesitation:
Hear me, O cruel Frost Queen, ruler of winters dark and mean.
I’m here with my Buds a-growing, to assert my power in this Isle of Bowen.
Hear my words addressed to thee, for this is my will; so must it be.
Hear me now, this charge I lay: release the summer this very day!
The Green Man’s victory (hoped for by all lovers of warmth and sunshine) was nearly thwarted, though, when the Ice Queen cast a spell and froze all of the buds.
Eventually, the warmth of the little buds prevailed and the Ice Queen was banished for at least a few months.
The May Queen invoked the sun, and all the children, icicles
