The Fairy Flowers are Blooming
Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle
It’s fairy flower time in Perth
They’re probably weeds, but I don’t care.
Ever since I was little, I’ve called these little pink blossoms fairy flowers. Like clockwork, lawns bloom with these miniature pink flowers as the temperature warms up in September.
As a child, when we went out to the oval at lunch, I’d always try to sit near the fairy flowers. I thought they looked so pretty blooming amongst the lush grass.
I might be the only one who admires them, though — true gardeners come out with their buckets in September and dig them out.
As an adult, I’ve never spotted a fairy flower on my lawn. I grow all other sorts of weeds and odds and sods. But no fairy flowers. It might be for the best, I’d probably let them overtake the lawn.
This year it’s different. As I took Rotto on his Rott-trot, I tried extremely hard to find fairy flowers sitting amidst lush lawns. Alas, the lovely fairy flowers are blooming among weeds this year.
My local streets have undergone over twelve months of verge digging to facilitate underground power installation. Everyone’s verge is a mass of weeds at the moment.
Perhaps next year, they will bloom again and provide a splash of colour against the grass.
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Sandi Parsons is an award-winning school librarian with over 20 years experience working in educational libraries. She lives with her favorite husband, two problem puppies, and spends her Spring days hunting for fairy flowers … and fairies.
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