Good Mornin' Garden Faeries!
On the first of May, the Garden Faeries awaken with a yawn and a squeak and they stumble about in the grass trying to look at everything at once. They're just like that. They kick the wrinkles out of their wings, brush the moss and twigs out of their hair and head right out to look for dewdrops. They're thirsty, it was a long nap.
On the first of May I thread my work belt through my keyring, my watch, my pruning shears. Then I put on my silver bangle bracelets, which I will wear every day that the faeries are awake. Well hey. They have to know who to follow, don't they?
On the first of May I generate an inter-office memo warning my co-workers to watch where they're walking, as the faeries just woke up and they're a little wobbly yet. They all think I'm nuts, I LOVE it.
WHAT would we do without them? How would we EVER explain the madness of a garden? What ELSE could you possibly call all that GIGGLING!!?? And besides, as humans, if it's THIS hard to get you all to stop cursing at your dandelions, how could I EVER convince you how much the flowers would like to be adored? Not merely ADMIRED, and certainly not DESIGNED WITH and MANIPULATED, but just simply ADORED. That's part of what faeries are for. The other thing faeries are FOR is to keep US from taking ourselves too seriously. Oh us, these lumbering, hulking DENSE creatures who can't even SEE the glorious little things most of the time. They amuse themselves by endlessly tugging on our hair and hiding our tools, mixing up the seeds and telling the chipmunks when the hollyhock buds are perfect for THROWING at each other.
Well, in researching this particular article I certainly found out that I'm not the ONLY one spending time telling you about the Wee Folk. This site tells you which plants the Garden Faeries seem to favor.
In my snufflings about, I came upon a particularly astonishing looking book called 'The Fairies: Photographic Evidence of the Existence of Another World' by Suza Scalora.
In the book department, I own a couple of REAL gems. One is 'The Fairy Garden' which is created and illustrated by Tom Cross and written by Constance Barkley Lewis. The illustrations here are just to get LOST in. They seem to be part painting, part photo, flawless collage, but completely and utterly magical.
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