To celebrate Beltane, also known as May Day, the tot and I set out a little offering of dried flowers for Lady Spring and the faeries. (We did this today rather than yesterday, when she was a sick pup. Lady Spring understands if the festivities need to be rescheduled because of barfing.) We had some dried daffodils on our nature tray, as well as a few dried bluebonnets and lavender blossoms, and I had some eggshells that I had dyed with tea. I was envisioning setting the dried flowers into the shells in little arrangments, but Little Owl had different plans. She crushed up the eggshells and layered them on a little terra cotta tray, then layered the flowers on top. That went under the big flowering bush that shelters her secret reading place. She also scattered the little treasures she found on a recent walk – seed pods, an old wasp nest, a little stick. A dried leaf, an acorn cap, a blade of grass. A heaven in a wild flower, that is the world for my darling girl.
I love it when she has her own ideas about how she wants to do these little things I plan for us. And I love that she knows exactly where the faeries would like for us to leave their flowers.
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