Happy May Day - nothing to do with help or workers - but a Bank Holiday here.
I've danced round a pole or two in my time, but Belgium, or at least Brussels and Leuven, do it differently. You get lily of the valley (above) but have to wait until August for the actual tree to be planted (in commemoration of a battle) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_F080YRb0E&feature=related
The lithograph in the background dates from 1900 and is by Marc-Henri Meunier, nephew of Constantin Meunier the famous Belgian painter of workers' struggles. It's Symbolist but so is everything.
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