Warm days, warm hearts, it's finally
summer and everything is in bloom and the faeries are out dancing.
I'm really excited for the coming months and have a lot of plans and
changes in store. I've been working on taking more and better
photographs, moving, crafting, making, exploring and spending as much
time outside amongst the fresh flowers and trees. I'm often suffering
from intense bouts of identity crisis but I'm really trying to get
over it and really hoping the new season will help.
I took these photos, a little while
ago, under the blooming magnolias and caught a bit of the lilacs as
well. Both now are mostly faded and their ephemeral lives are such a
fascinating things. How can there be so much beauty and scent for
merely a few weeks in a year? I often feel like I am waiting
patiently for the lilacs to grow everywhere and when they do, their
short lives come and go so swiftly, it never feels enough for me.
(Especially when I want to use their petals in food recipes and
before I get around to it, they're gone!)
In old folklore tradition, if you walked through a field of blue bells, you'd have bad luck for the rest of the year because you would be disturbing the faeries and the spells they weaved in the flowers. I went for a long hike that same day and took some pictures in the forest and I'm not too sure what happened in this picture but I like to believe that those little dots of fuzzy light are the faeries casting spellings along the forest floor :)
