Australia cries...Black days ...too much horror.

A late summer's day faeries.

And late in the day after the heat had retreated...and the white bark of the gum trees had softened with the setting sun... they came again...as usual.The shadows laid blue upon the earth and the hot restless day settled to the coolness...what more could I want or need than to be here...

Its been a while since the faeries came to me...

but of late they are there in a lather...its been so hot here; no one goes outside unless they have to ... this first lot I saw early in the morning when I let my cat Cous Cous out...they were there for the moment and in a flash they were gone...I remembered the faery on the right most, who seemed to be the focus of the others... but as I opened the screen door they all whisped away like the light; apart from her...she turned to look at me and her eyes ...those eyes... ah thats another story.
Later in the day this lot slammed their faces up against my window...I had been watching the pair of Blue Fairy Wrens and trying to see where they came from and then went to when this lot turned up. it never rains but that it pours...I can go through a drought of faeries, times when I look out and there is nothing there but the spiders' webs and the small tree snakes and... then there they are again.

But as the summer deepens, and the shimmering heat becomes more entrenched... I seem more able to see beyond the norm and beyond the dam with its mauve and yellow lillies...beyond the snakes just outside the door all of that.

There I was all set up to watch "the Bold and the bewdiful" and this mob slammed up against my big window on the world..., they demanded to be drawn and not sure i have done then justice because of their insistence.

O well back to reality...whats that these days? The intense humidity and heat have made a shimmery sight of the land about me, and the dam is spare of water...the cows in the paddock next to our house don't even seem to want to drink from the dam...they know what I can smell. We need rain...a week of it...to cool and to deconstruct the oppression summer has laid upon us all.

Summer is a comin' in

...and easy to see...the land is blooming under the heat of the sun and the mercy of the rain...this little group of sweet summer faeries I saw sitting in the last rays of the afternoon sun...and then night fell...they weren't there in the morning but I feel them...every tome the sun gets close to slipping down beyond the horizon.... summer is okay right now and nice to know I have friends hereabouts.

Early for Christmas

I'm a bit early for Christmas ......

but when these happy faces warped out from behind Don's water fall all a sparkle...I had to get down on the floor with my pens and pencils and work as fast as possible to capture their faces...not sure...should they be done in pastels or fluro... all depends on the eye of the beholder I think.
Sometimes I remember them in pastels, sometimes the sun strobes across them and they are all fluro...they don't care. Time is as nothing and its all light and colour , water and sun and earth... I was so pleased to see this mob again as I'd been feeling a bit droopy (okay for a woman to feel droopy - wouldn't own up if I was a fellow) ...tee heee.

This year for the first time since about 1977, Christmas will be held at someone elses home. Down through the years because we lived half way between Brisbane and Sydney - everyone came here. They also came here because of the beaches and because we had room and also because Don could not travel... but this year it will be at my eldest daughter and her husband's place...

I am in too minds...feeling tragic because i feel in some way I am leaving Don behind somewhere... and a bit relieved because its not me who has to carry the can ...but i will because I know how hard it is sometimes to be the one who is to fulfill every ones expectations...now its her turn and I will do my level best to help her so its not too onerous...so she can also enjoy -

I'm a good washerupperer...garbage taker outer...toilets cleaner and all round rouse about...

But this year I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!

Some Egyptian type faeries...not so out of place down under as there was a Lot of contact with the ancient Egypt and the Australian continent - not that your history teachers would acknowledge this....


sometimes they seem to be there stark and removed from the emotions... unlike the faeries from my Celtic past who are sometimes too involved.








Like these ones, who just seem to rocket in with grins and laughter from time to time





which is just as well because the other side of the Celtic coin of merriment and silliness is what this poor faery brings
a sadness from ages past, and a tear to heavy to hold... she too has her place as part of the faery and human condition

Some more faery folk for ya all... I have been flat out like a lizard drinking and just kept collecting these... unsure where the first young one came from too long ago
















but the family one well thats us on a different planet - all together and happy forget the tears...they are happy tears...

Then there are the princess faeries - they are the future of our little family and no matter that in real life they wear their jeans and drive their cars... they know the stuff and are part of the faery lore.

Spring faeries
August is rolling into September, hence this pair of Spring Heralds...all a sparkling with light and colour and smiles. Fifty four times the Spring faeries have shown their shiny eyes and smiles inside my head... now they are out there in the trees, in the branches... above the dam, lying alongside the creek... I see them, sweet spirits that they are and welcome them knowing that although they are the harbringers f spring...the show in the summer, hot and heavy...which I will rail against... but hey...its how the world work its how the faeries work... how it is...

Some wintry faeries outside my home ...sitting high on the branches of a tree which has shed its leaves...
Don't think the tears are for loss or for winter - think the tears are for a soft sunny day... a midwinter day
a day when the sky is blue grey, and the mountains cry high for our songs...

These are then, some wintry faeries - eyes a glow and sad at the passing into spring -

Wintry faeries have their own stillness and solitude.

Reminder Faeries ... are a tapping and a knocking to be noticed on these cooler winter days - too soon the sun goes down and the long darkness descends - but come the morning the mists are gently strobed with sun beams and the colour returns to the earth - a softer light than the light of summer. The world seems to have a magic feel to it. This lot don't give up easy, but then the way I am I welcome the first sign of light in the morning so its easy to get me outside. Just sometimes I realise that as I walk outside my mind chatter is still going on and I don't notice the small things... the small changes which the night has brought...

This mob make sure that I do open my eyes and do open my heart and mind to the amazing beauty I am fortunate enough to be able to see daily whenever I wish...

And this is such a gift... I hope I never ever have to ever move back into town...

Some garden critters

Some more concrete visitors to my back yard...


The autumn sun was shining, and the air was cool.

It'd been raining for a week but when I came outside here they were all washed clean and surrounded by green and colour..

These ones are concrete, and I didn't draw them but they gve me pleasure... anyway

This one hides and smiles... thats all.













She tends a flower which spreads and spreads...thats okay...
How could this not make you feel less serious and sad?

They're every where if we just see

They're everywhere..everywhere...



can't help but see them...ahhh a walk amongst the trees... Mythago Woods,,,,so good.

The Fam

The Fam forever...across time, across space, across all that seeks to reason, to bind, to hold, to stay...

Sweet late autumn

And here they are... its Autumn again and out under the trees across the paddock they picnic... they picnic royally as if time was not and night was not and winter was not...

They're everywhere.

I know it must be a bright sunlit day somewhere because they shine, but here in the wee small hours its still dark outside, and a waning moon sails endlessly in a quiet sky above my head. The stars are all out as we say, but they are always there, we just don't see them...so say "the stars are out" the faeries think the way we put things is amusing... like saying "The sun is rising" we know it doesn't rise, the earth turns... if they amuse me how much more so must we amuse them, sadden them also... but not for long, with them all is speed and light and colour...

They are like mini angels... sure God or whatever enables the flowers to be so perfectly coloured in colours we try to but can never reproduce, not really...to our eyes maybe.

Its the touch of God, of Angel of Faery which enables the light to shine out of the flowers, and the hills and the oceans...

As with the angels, some faeries may be a little bit fallen from time to time, might sip a bit too much nectar of the gods, or not always be dressed as we think faeries should be, or dressed at all...

There are lots of "Rudy Trudy" faeries about... all depends on how you see them and now you see them , now you don't..

It must be the time of year...

Early autumn...well autumn... all of it, has always been a favourite season. This year I need all the faery faces with their quick smiles and fast light about me as I get through what must be done, because it is the right thing to do and because of a love that is forever.

Some family faeries from long long ago... somewhere they live still in a toy house, enjoying autumn days that end with the gold of a sunset that never ends.

I have seen the Coogee Faeries before...

and here they are back again. When I was at my eldest's place... an old semi detached house near Coogee beach (Sydney)... I had plenty of reading time, plenty of dreaming time and some crying time...as well as lots of laughter...

at the back of the house is a long flight of wooden outside steps leading to a small postage stamp size yard in which her old cat dreams away the days... the cat is an old alley cat... an Erskinville cat with moods all of his own... as he tossed and turned in sleep amongst the detritus of sticks and leaves in the yard a gaggle of faces swooped down about him, just missing his old paws as they whooshed about him... for the moment I heard, faint as to be almost not there... quick notes of music sounding like crystal would sound... if it had a sound... laughter and much revelry could be seen as the gentry teased the old cat... who was still too lazy to really do much at all about the disturbance of his sleep ...

then puff... they were just gone as if they had never been there at all.

Ninth Floor Faeries...

How on earth this window full of faces found me way up here above the ground...but there they are... I pulled back the blind early one morning while at my youngest daughter's place and first one face then the rest appeared like snow crystals on the window pane...

I hope they are up to the noise that will be here in a few days , once the Grand Prix gets underway...they won't be able to hear themselves think when that lot get underway...or maybe they are not from hereabouts but followed me from my Craggy Island home.

Maybe they are here looking out for my youngest in her little eyrie high above the pavements

The Heart faery allows for tears...

She stares back at us with all the compassion of the universe...allowing for our humanity. Tears are allowed to flow and grief be assuaged... memories are allowed to hover just beyond the vision of the day light...and she allows this, as all is in order.

Not the need to be logical, nor figure out...just to be...to be as raw as any gaping wound...

as the rain falls, so must the tears... and then the sun shines in the cool of early autumn days and the healing begins with all the savagery of having a knife rip open your chest... justice must be served and all is right in the heavens above...

the heart faery knows this.