“It’s not about what you look at that matters, it’s about what you see.” Henry David Thoreau                   On the north side of a small mountain in Maine, The Home Place Fairies             Along with a Wizard and the Seamstress to the […]

Christmas is a powerful time in the Fairy Kingdom, the Elves and Gnomes are particularly busy. Human children far and wide are writing lists of wishes, wants and desires. The Home Place Fairies cheerfully depart from their cozy winter chambers waving wands, busily casting enchantments upon any childhood wish that happens to linger, determining the […]

From the moment I stepped out into my dooryard this morning I knew this day was special. All about me the ground was covered with new fallen snow; all was silent, all was still. It is Christmas Eve, the Eve before the most sacred day of all days in all of the world . Fairies, […]

The first day of winter has arrived here at the Farm and the Home Place Fairy Folk celebrate accordingly.           Blue Fairy Hill was covered in snow; a few days ago heavy December rains had washed our second snowfall away. Saturday evening more snow fell.             […]

Children have been asking this question for generations. A wonderful book of poems called “Beyond The Mountain” by Sarah Stokes Halkett published in 1917 asks this same question.                   Here in Maine on the north side of a small mountain I am Seamstress to a troop of […]

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, which is very exciting, and made all the more so by the welcome gifts of gratitude Fairy Folk leave around our farm. For an entire week leading up to Thanksgiving members of the Fairy Kingdom leave offerings of thanks for all the enchanted clothing I have sewn or mended for them over […]

The Children’s Garden of Earthly Delight just before the October Full Moon             Right before the hard frost arrived and most of the leaves fell…      

                    As Autumn begins to wane Fairy Folk are busy preparing for winter.               The blueberry barrens on top of Blue Fairy Hill twinkle with fairy dust encouraging plants to surrender their leaves of scarlet and gold.       […]

    On the north side of a small mountain not far from the sea sits a fine little farmhouse as happy as can be.                                           Surrounded by meadows of hay, orchards of fruit, gardens […]

                    Late  September is harvest time . The Home Place Fairy Folk and I have been busy gathering vegetables,  late season fruits such as apples and grapes as well as flowers and herbs . Vegetables are cleaned and frozen for consuming during the long cold months […]