A mischievous young moss fairy asked for my help one sunny summer morning...this is his story. I was preparing to give a workshop on consciousness at a summer camp conference on the healing arts. It was up in the Maine woods where the setting was rich with the...
Everyone is enjoying the warm March days we are experiencing in Northern Illinois. Including this tiny nature spirit, sunning himself in his Black Walnut tree home. His head is all of 1" tall. He opened his eyes long enough to acknowledge me, then went back to his...
A hooded elf is emerging from a portal into our dimension, and checking that it is safe to do so. This portal is in a honey locust tree that is a "Safe Place." This particular tree is something like the safe houses in the Underground Railroad and something like the...
A Territorial Marker Tree This tree with the image of an Elfin Warrior Prince and his entourage is what I call a marker tree. It defines this geographic area as being under the protection of this powerful Elfin Warrior Prince. He has posted his image here as his...
Here's a lovely large fairy ring, around an American Beech Tree. Beech Tree Ring This ring appeared in a large tree outside the front door of my apartment house. It looks like the fairies had quite a night of it, and perhaps grew a bit tipsy - a number of the...
This Greenman lives in quiet self-confidence – and a bit of braggadocio – in the magical Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State. To the right is a close up view of him in his tree home. He has a magnificent curly beard, mustache and subtle smile worthy...
The Greenmen and Greenwomen are the philosophers, teachers and warriors of the nature world. They have taught me much about the workings of the nature spirits. No matter where I go, when we meet, even for the first time, it is like visiting with old friends. Greenman...
Pan is playing his pipes, surrounded by beings of many realms. This tableau exists at Strawberry Fields, Central Park, NY. Created by interdimensional artists, it is their memorial to musician John Lennon. It depicts him in his later long-hair years as a...
The Protector - the masked elf who oversees my family's property in North Conway, NH - has long been a partner and inspiration to my brother Chet, the head of our little enclave. Chet died three years ago and on my first visit to the property since then, I was touched...
This compassionate log graces the woods at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve, St. Charles, IL. Cascading down the hill around it is a carpet of bluebells. Protection for Small Animals In the middle of the fallen tree - its skeleton now the home for a variety of species -...
Nature spirits are all around us - including in your own yard! This complex Pan territorial marker exists in an old willow tree on my sister-in-law's property in Barrington Hills, Illinois. Pans are one of the over-lighting life forms of the nature world. Half man and...
The Elf realm is very broad and with many variations. These include the delicate small elves, the masked warriors, and the senior leaders. These mature leaders, like many in the human realm, can have a strong muscular commanding presence and are stouter of build. Here...