A special report from the front porch.....

we had a very peaceful 4th of July!

Yes, these rocking chairs were put to service!

We visited our friends, Mr. Pear brought the camera along.....

Their old farmhouse is now in town and has beautiful gardens. These friends are truly "green" and animal lovers, I'm sure their gardens are just full of fairies!

We are looking at some "triple" ( more petals than just "double") daylilies here...

By the way,this bouquet features a daylily from my garden which also seems to be triple or even "twisted" triple, and a soft yellow gladiola which is from some "church bazaar" bulbs which my mother brought to me from Wisconsin....this is the first time I've seen what their bloom would be....(maybe I like gladiolas after all....?)

The baked goodies are chocolate chip oatmeal cake (which I made for the party)and plum buckle (which I am enjoying for breakfast now!)

In the garden with Daisy.....

A peaceful image for a special day of fun and play, this is a painting by Margaret Tarrant an early 20th century illustrator. (She illustrated "Water Babies" in 1908.)

Today we can celebrate Fairy Day in honor of our late friend and blogger, Daisy Lupin. Daisy loved the idea of fairies and fairie day. It was she who made us more aware of these summer garden visitors!

In playing along with this, Carmen, of Strawberries and Champagne gave a link on her blog to find your fairy name. This is fun! (Like we need to have more names to remember?!)

Mine is Diamond Honey Nameen. My granddaughter is Diamond Heart Pomegranate and Mr. Pear is Pomegranate Hop Trail (as in "take a hike"? he does love hiking!)). [The funny thing is that our granddaughter had named him "Pom-Pom" when she was just learning to talk!]

It's late and the weekends are my busy time with my part-time job so I am wishing you all a happy Fairy Day. Do something fun for your inner child today!

Evening update: after work

Mr. Pear aka "Pomegranate Hop Trail" and I went for a walk this evening through the old part of town where one can find cottages and cottage gardens....we looked for elusive fairies.

Perhaps we were a bit early, not even the fireflies were out yet....but here at home, I was able to finally post a digital photo rather than a scan of the fairy doll made to celebrate midsummer. Here is Lunarose, the moonlight rose fairy flying near some calla lilies...you can almost see the rose tatoo on her ankle!

This is Lunarose, the midsummer fairy doll I finished today. She flies around gardens in the moonlight, sipping dewdrops and looking for the perfect rose!

[I'm sorry to only have a scanned image....I have some really cute ones on her in flight, but we've had some technology changes with the computer/printer system since the last time I uploaded digital photos...I can get it into a viewer, but not a file for saving and using on my blog....oh, well! (I'll post those whenever I do get it "worked out")] She is sparkly and shimmery and is very proud of the tatooed rose vining its way around her left ankle. (May be visible in a "flying" photo!)

Lunarose is going to a new home this evening....at our

DQS* Summer Solstice party to welcome the fairies back for the summer....she is going home with Lizzzzy as this doll was made for her in our doll swap!

* DQS is a small group of friends, all of whom used to hang out at my quilt shop....one of our sons called us the "dead quilter's society" (after the movie with Robyn Williams, "Dead Poets Society") Lizzzzy had jokingly commented that perhaps we are also the Drama Queen Sisters....take your pick!

Remember the amaryllis???

I found it on the porch....still beautiful in it's own way! The stamens even have clear crystalized sparkly beads of nectar...what to do with this???

Here is one artist's beautiful book of ideas!

I know I'm not likely to make any fairie clothing from the ethereal petals, but they might end up on an ATC...Photocopies if not real dried petals!