While traveling in England and Ireland, one of the things I found most interesting was the abundance of gorgeous wildflowers. Being a believer in the fairy spirits of this world, this of course was just another sign of their overwhelming presence on those islands.
Wherever there was an old castle, church, stone wall, or fort, there were beautiful flowers that, like all living things, thrive when they are wild and free.
The remains of an old wall at Tintagel Castle.
A slate wall beside the main road in Tintagel. This was one of the few places we saw people-planted flowers, red geraniums. The flowers along the base of the wall were growing wild.
Ballycarbury Castle wall, County Kerry, Ireland.
Queen Anne’s lace along the walk to a fairy hill near Fore, Ireland. Even the bees flying around it were huge, explaining my uncomfortable expression. Everything along that path had been touched by the magic of the nature spirits.
Lisa Popp 