June is a time of jubilation as the gardens have awakened,  alive and abundant.

Foxgloves are a favorite flower of the fairy folk.  Sprinkled with fairy dust they sparkle and glow.

Old Horse in the meadows looks over the Poppies and Fairies alike. He is friend and Guardian of all the Home Place Faires.

Fairy Folk gather, they sing and they dance.

Magic happens in every garden

All one has to do is look…

Spring is  the busiest time of year for all inhabitants of the Fairy Kingdom.

Home Place Fairy Folk  have the pleasant task of sprinkling fairy dust throughout the flower and woodland gardens here at the farm.

Little Delphinia Fairy sprinkles particles of magic dust throughout the woodland gardens among azaleas and rhododendrons who bow with graditude.

Fairy dust is composed of secret organic ingredients ground precious and fine which when sprinkled onto plants encourages them to sprout, blossom and grow.

Fairy Dust has many magical applications besides encouraging flora to flourish and grow.

Each spring Fairy Folk leave me, as Seamstress to the Fairies a bottle of dust that has been specially ground. Just a wee pinch of dust sprinkled on an article of clothing I have sewn allows fairies who wear them to shape shift and change in size from fairy tiny to that of a mortal child.

Here is a fairy dress that has just been sprinkled with fairy dust to reduce it to a wee small size.

There is magic all around, all you have to do is look.

Happy Spring!

Flower Moon is the name given to the full moon of May because this is generally when flowers begin to bloom in profusion in North America.

A “Blood Moon” happens when the Earth’s moon is in a total lunar eclipse and will not appear again until May 0f 2022.

Last night’s full moon entered Earth’s shadow on May 26th 2021. When the Moon is not in our planets shade it appears larger and brighter than it usually does. A lunar eclipse happens when the Sun and Moon occupy precise positions on opposite sides of the Earth. When this alignment happens the Earth blocks some of the Sun’s light from reaching the full moon. Our atmosphere filters the light as it passes softening the edge of our planets shadow and giving the moon a deep rose glow.

The blood moon, otherwise known as a total lunar eclipse, typically occurs during a supermoon  On any other night, the moon receives direct light from the sun, but on this special night, the moon shifts into the Earth’s darkest and most central part of its shadow. At this point, the sun, Earth, and moon are almost completely aligned. You might think that this would cause the moon to go completely dark, but instead it is illuminated by indirect sunlight, which results in an eerie red color.

Due to a welcome, much need rain we were unable to see this month’s Red Blood Flower Moon, however we were delighted to see this magnificent, glorious prelude of a red and wonderous sunset sky!

Early this morning I heard a soft tapping at my door, and whom should I find there greeting me? Why Tiny G, the smallest of the Home Place Fairy Folk. As is the custom each and every spring Tiny G hand delivers my invitation to The Grand Fairy Spring Ball. Fairy balls are grand occasions with much planning and preparation begun months beforehand. As Seamstress to the Fairies I am responsible for designing and stitching together a vast array of elaborate fairy wear.

Little G is responsible for delivering all the invitations to the Grand Fairy Spring Ball and she takes her mission seriously, checking her list several times over.

Afterwards I invite G into my kitchen for a sip of honey and blueberry nectar tea.

Springtime Blues Fairy style…

In the gardens at the farm

Wee Blue Fairy Folk waving wands…

Along the roadside to Blue Fairy Hill… wee Blue Fairy Folk marching on…

On the hilltop…

In the meadow wee Blue Fairy Folk chasing stardust and  lighting wands.

At the first hint of twilight into the Enchanted Forest they go.

Memories of springtime in a small garden in Maine.

Through the woodland from the Enchanted Forest into the garden the fairy children go.

A garden full of wonder where fairies sing to the flowers and dance as they scatter seeds and tend rose bushes, blueberries and herbs.

Occasionally granting wishes as they sing and they play.

Spring greenery has begun, flowers have begun to blossom and fairies take delight.

Magic happens everywhere, all one has to do is look!

Long ago and not so far away, an enchanted pony and a small group of children gathered together each and every spring.

With Fairies beside them the children rode horseback and danced in a woodland glen.

Now these children are children no more and they watch as their own young children dance and mingle with the fairy folk.

The world around us is truly enchanting; it’s what you make of it.

Fairies arrive in the wee early hours of dawn.

Virginia Bluebells
(mertensia virginia)

Virginia Bluebells in full ring this morning, thousands of them carpet the gardens along with forget me knots. Virginia Bluebell (mertensia virginia) perennial, zones 3-9, shade,early spring bloomer. Prolific, small bulbs divide as well as self sows then dies back and greenery disappears in the heat of summer. A  cottage garden favorite of the fairies.