I like the blessing of the waters thing. We do that on January 6th in the Orthodox Church. One thing we seem often to have more in common with you lusty Pagans than with our Western Christian brethren is a feeling for the sacredness of matter, the potential holiness of place. Blessing the water, the sky, singing the sun up -- these make a lot of sense to me.

Burning all night long
Burning at the gates of dawn
Singing near and far
Singing to raise the Morning Star
---Bruce Cockburn

Happy Beltaine (sp?) to all of you who celebrate the same! May the summer sun find you happy and healthy and full of life!

Alex