Magical fairy shoes and beams of childlight

What about this for some magic!

Fairy shoes all ready for midsummer fairy fun...


...in pairs hid away within white dead nettle flowers..!


A beam of pure light and joy! Our Jediah is two months old! How truly blessed we are.


These two are loving each other's company.


Football rock drawings. See some of the players kicking balls.


A giant ant in clay.


Strange water games!


Happy, happy summer!

Whispering grass meadow and Wind babies

Wind, wind, wind...

Being free with the wind in our hair, and the wind whistling by our ears, and the wind rolling through the grassy meadow.



To lie so still in a grassy nest and listen to the stories the wind whispers...shiishhhhh



Sometimes wind babies come to play in our babe's clothes,
how they dance and flip and sway,
then all becomes still and they fly away.

Running with the fairies

Our boy's beautiful imagination. The dandelion fairies sit happily upon the dandelions and when the children run along through the dandelions, the fairies jump off and race along with them in the wind.

Dry mud towers

Lots of fun can be had with wet, squishy mud, and when it dries out there is still lots of creativity and natural play to be enjoyed.



When the sun and wind dries out deep muddy puddles, there is natural puddle puzzle paradise!



The puzzles of mud can be pulled up, rearranged, used to build mighty towers or giants can fling them into deep seas of wet mud!

Outside

The farmer has started preparing the fields to sow organic wheat here. It always amazes us that within minutes of him starting to turn the soil, flocks of gulls arrive from nowhere and start looking for food. Incredible how they get to know...the boys call them crazy birds.


Warm enough to go barefoot and reconnect with the ground beneath.


A tribe of jabberwockys.


The insect world is awakening - our insect boy is delighted...


Wheelbarrows make mighty ships sailing the seven seas.


Wool on the trees for the birds to use in their nests.


And this mama sits in the gentle sun spinning, savouring every kick of this growing babe and loving seeing her children running free...

Valentine's Day

Here's our Valentine's Day tree. My little princes made clay birds and hearts. They sprinkled them with glitter and then painted them with watercolours. We chose a branch and decorated our tree.



Woodland play. Lots of nature love!

Today's adventures

Sol was in his element and declared that this day was a very good day.  He really delights in bug hunting and admiring - since he was very young.

Observing and admiring snails and caterpillars and butterflies and a whole host of different insects.

Caterpillars emerging from their cosy home.  Incredible!

Shield bug

Paired shield bugs of a different variety.  These are beautiful - gold with a bronze triangle on their backs.

A bombardier beetle.

Leo and Noah gravitated towards this great big puddle instead.   Such fun those two mud dwellers had!

Leo played at being a giant travelling to Mars via the puddle.

Noah did a whole lot of running and splashing and jumping and throwing stones in the puddle.  I did a bit of both - searching for bugs and squelching about in the puddle.