Our First Faerie Sightings!!!

Here at Lapaz Farm, we have always suspected Faerie activity. After all, we are in the middle of the Appalachian mountains, whose ancient slopes are well known to be magical! And the recent pranks in our garden (with broccoli plants being changed into cabbages) confirmed our suspicions. So this week we set about finding and photographing the little folk.
But how to proceed?
We started off with research, of course. After thoroughly perusing the most scholarly and complete works available, namely Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (AKA The Field Guide) we decided the best approach was to disguise one of us as a species known to be friendly to Faerie folk. Since JBug was the smallest, she was the logical choice. We quickly set about making her disguise as a Wood Elf (knowing she would never pass as a genuine Fairy-too tall, you know), in hopes that she could move amongst them undetected.

Once decked out in Elfin garb, JBug was positioned in prime Faerie territory (determined by proximity to flowers, dew drops, and rings of toadstools).
It was not long before we had our first sighting.
What at first glance appeared to be a stray Poppy from roadside plantings…

upon further inspectioned looked distinctly Faerie-like!

When approached as close as we dared without risking detection, we saw clearly that this was no ordinary Poppy, but indeed a flower fairy, dressed in radiant Poppy petals!

Success!!! But wait! What was that white shape next to the cherry tree?! Was it an ordinary lily?

No! It was yet another flower fairy, decked in a splendid white Lily gown!

We could hardly believe our luck! Not one, but two flower Faeries!
We were quite content to call it a day when from the corner of our eye we caught sight of another! This third little dear was seen tending to a ripening Dandelion tuft when our gasps of joy were detected and she flew away on petal-like wings! But not before we got one picture!

That was the last of the faerie sightings for the day and we considered ourselves quite lucky indeed to have been able to spot (and photograph!) these three.

But tomorrow is another day and I believe if our luck holds, we will see many more of these dainty folk before the spring is at it’s end.