Melani Blazer

I was supposed to write this last night (per my husband) who laughed at the whole thing and ended it with. “You’re gonna blog about this now, aren’t you?” Why, yes, yes I am!

We’re re-siding the house and currently working on the back yard. It’s starting to get dark and the mosquitos are getting vicious. I’m looking up, following a bad ’squito in hopes of smooshing him, and I see this ….thing flying through the yard and up to a nearby everygreen.

“Oooooh! A faerie!”

My husband gives me the do-I-need-to-have-you-committed look. “What?”

“A faerie, just flew into that tree.”

“A what?”

“A faerie. You know, about 3 inches long, light green. A faerie. Maybe she’s blessing the house or keeping watch over us or something.”

My husband snorts. “I don’t see anything.” Goes back to work.

I see another one. “There. There. See! It just landed on the branch.” (Disclaimer: yes, I know they’re bugs. They were beautiful and magical and made me WANT to believe in faeries again, so I was not letting go of the magic.)

“All I see is leaves.”

“You’re not looking hard enough. See? They’re beautiful. Two sets of wings. Light green.” Truth was, they DID look like faeries. Their legs hung down long and their body was so narrow they could easily be little people with wings.

Another landed on a lilac tree and I pulled the branch down. I was hoping it would fly away so he could see it “look” like a faerie. It of course, was simply a katydid and looked more like a walking leaf.

“That thing?” he asked.

“Use your imagination. It sounds better to think we’re surrounded by faeries who are blessing the work we’re doing on the house rather than a bevy of katydids.”

“What are you drinking?” he eyes me strangely.

“Just imagine, okay?”

“You’re gonna blog about this, aren’t you?”

So I went inside and told my daughter via IM about the beautiful faeries that were flitting around at twilight, dancing around with their pale green gossamer wings as they serenaded us with their ancient songs. She appreciated the fantasy, at least.

Katydids, faeries, whatever. I know it’s magic.