Fairyland Vacation

This little house stands quietly in a fairyland of rocks and pebbles, tiny cottages and a little bridge. Only little people, and one determined squirrel traverse this little piece of land. Up farther, if you follow the vining leaves toward the little pansy up in the corner there is another land. In that land is a……

Oh, I might as well tell you. It’s not another land, but a deck with a hot tub. There are white filmy curtains, and a white pergola with lights that twinkle blue and red against the velvet black sky. The night air was barely cool and the hot tub was bubbly with warm, warm water. My long time friend and I settled into the foaming water with our drinks and chatted about nursing past, present and how we think it should be for the next hour and a half. Self care and friendship are definitely two bits of kindness that make life so bubbly and warm. 

However lovely the evening, my attempt at photographing this night scene failed miserably, the photos too grainy and dark to be used for tonight. The back yard is truly a fairy land with a gold fish pond on the other side of the small yard, plants and a rock garden to complete this tropical prairie corner.

“What paradise and vacation have in common is that you 

have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life.”

~ Joseph Brodsky, essayist and poet