May is a very busy month in the gardens here at the farm. The greenhouse is filled with trays of seedlings and the trees in the orchards are full of buds just waiting for a bit of sun to nudge them into full bloom. Both the bees and the fairy folk are all a flutter pollinating the newly awakening flowers for the fruit we will harvest come fall. I attached unbreakable shimmery ornaments from apple, peach and pear tree branches while fairy folk adorned the boughs with tinsel they had recycled from Christmas trees. These things are fairy fanciful yet serve a second gentle purpose which is to startle and keep the deer from nibbling all the tender new buds away.

Lady Ann spied this Robin’s nest on the steps to the tower by the lake. It has been enchanted by the fairies to protect this young nestling and her yet unhatched mate.