{"id":756,"date":"2025-08-26T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeplacefairies.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:49:48","slug":"fairy-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeplacefairies.com\/blog\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B<\/strong>y August the Home Place Fairies and I have been faithfully tending the gardens here at the farm since early spring. Late summer days in Maine can be hot and heavy and traditionally it is a time when I pause from my daily gardening chores to sit or wander soaking in the loveliness and bounty all around me. The fairies are playful little sprites who always find time to play and be merry.<\/p>\n

B<\/strong>eing fair little beings their fairy skin is tender to the bright sunlight of an August summer day so they tend to the gardens now only at dawns early light or just before the sun sets and a soft gentle chill sets in.<\/p>\n

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B<\/strong>y mid day most of the fairy folk head for the enchanted forest and bask in the shade. Those few who venture out to the gardens take parasols creating their own protective shade.<\/p>\n

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D<\/strong>elphinia and L<\/strong>a R<\/strong>osa soar through the kiwi arbor as N<\/strong>ightingale approaches \u00a0suggesting they return to the forest to wait until the sun sets lower on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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A<\/strong> breeze picks up and N<\/strong>ightingale joins the other fairies frolicking beneath the shade of the kiwi arbor heavy with fruit. She \u00a0cheerfully sprinkles fairy dust everywhere she goes.<\/p>\n

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D<\/strong>elphinia is next as she glides to a landing.<\/p>\n

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L<\/strong>ast is L<\/strong>a R<\/strong>osa with her wand all a glimmer.<\/p>\n

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“T<\/strong>o the enchanted forest and the shade”, \u00a0she says. And so the fairies head to the forest and I am left alone in my garden with visions of fairy folk in my head.<\/p>\n

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