BACK TO THE FAIRY GARDEN...

 at Meadowlark Gardens.  We were happy to be there again and it was a bit of a shock to realize it was our first time this year.  In fact we were trying to figure out when it was, and we both thought it was sometime last Fall.

The Fairy Garden is in front of the visitor center as you walk out the door and go to your left.  It had a new sign.

I was happy to see a few of the older fairies and friends, and delighted to see the new neighbors in fairy town.

More gnomes have moved in and there were get-togethers to welcome the newcomers.  They were singing...

A Fairy Song

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!

I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies, fairy favours;

In those freckles live their savours;

I must go seek some dewdrops here,

And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

~William Shakespeare~

If you go to this link at Wikipedia, it describes fairies as being "...a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, German, English and French folklore), a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural." 

At this website you will read that "the Norse versions of the fairies are the wide variety of elves, and the disir that exist in the Teutonic traditions.  The Valkyries could be classified as fairies."

"The Female spirits known as the Disir (pronounced "DEE-sir;" Old Norse, Old Saxon idisi)  are one of the most enigmatic and vexing groups of beings in the mythology and religion of the pre-Christian Norse and other Germanic peoples."

"It was during the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England, where William Shakespeare (1564-1616) had popularized fairies in English folklore, in his play Midsummer Night’s Dream, with the characters Oberon, Titania and Puck (Robin Goodfellow). Earlier than Shakespeare, Chaucer (1342-1400) mentioned that the land of Britain was filled with fairies before the time of King Arthur."

If you pop into Pinterest every now and again, this link will take you to lots of ideas if you are interested in starting a Fairy Garden.  At this point in my life I won't be, but I do enjoy looking at the one next to the visitor center at Meadowlark Gardens.

It's been fun sharing the photos I took there last Sunday.  There will be others from the rest of the garden soon.