A festival of fairies . . .

. . . where you enter with a magical spirit

and leave your "grown up" at home.

"Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,

For I would ride with you upon the wind,

Run on top of the disheveled tide,

And dance upon the mountains like a flame."

~ William Butler Yeats

When I visited my mom this summer we stumbled upon a magical place
where all you needed was an unlimited imagination and an open heart.

I found proof that unicorns do exist . . . 

that fairies take naps . . . 

. . . and sometimes float instead of fly

And, if I were a fairy and had wings, I hoped they would look like this . . .

perhaps I might be spotted wearing this . . . I would be called Fairy Godmother of the Garden,

or Forest Fairy . . . maybe Mother Earth Fairy.

I found no age limit for being a fairy . . . it is about a spirit {and a little spunk}.

there was even a Fairy Statue . . . {yes the bird is quite real}

. . . and the steam punk Fairy Time Keeper

I wasn't quite sure if she was supposed to be a fairy, but regardless she was the coolest cat there. 

And then, there she was . . . the cutest little Monarch Fairy there ever was!

If you were going to be home for Halloween, that is exactly what I would be!

But when no one was looking and everything was still I caught a glimpse of the smallest and most elusive of all, the Flower Fairy.

"The fairies went from the world, dear,
Because men's hearts grew cold:
And only the eyes of children see
What is hidden from the old..."

-Kathleen Foyle

It seems the older we get the more we forget how to trust our hearts and to be open to the unexplainable.

And just because you haven't seen something . . . well, it doesn't mean it's not there.


1. Speaking of fairies one of my favorite movies this summer was "Epic" where M.K. a teenage girl goes home to visit her dad who has been for many years trying to prove that there is a hidden world in the forest. In a turn of events she finds herself {shrunk} and is recruited by the nature spirit Queen Tara to help The Leafmen {who ride hummingbirds} save their existence from the evil warriors led by Mandrake.

2. I'm afraid the Monarch activity has come to a huge halt here. I still have maybe 10 chrysalid's left to emerge, but I'm not seeing them come back during the day. It will be very strange not to have them around since I've been raising them since March.....for a grand total released back to nature of almost 300!

3. A cold front came through last weekend, of course not in time to still have to stand on the sidelines taking photos of the varsity football game in 100 degrees! It was brutal. We have only been in the mid 80's during the day and around 70 at night.

4. My boy is doing pretty well, although he did have a breakthrough in his arthritis last week with pain and swelling and stiffness in his wrists. Apparently when you have systemic JRA and you get a common cold it's not uncommon for that to happen. If by mid November to mid December his blood test continue to come back with normal inflammation markers he may get to stop his infusions all together!

5. Just one more sleep and my baby girl is coming home for the weekend, WhOo HoO!! She has been really doing a lot of research on our ancestry and is pretty sure she found someone who came over on the Mayflower! I'm sure there will be some baking involved while she is here - she makes the best cakes!

Hope your weekend is magical
"Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly" - unkown
Love, Kim


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