Family Fest Day 3: fairies in the forest

Now I'm up to Day 3 of the Family Fest Wrap-up, and the day of the Fairies in the Forest Teaparty we held to celebrate Happy's 6th birthday. 

Problem is, while I do have some good photos to share, I have far fewer than I would like.

The thing is, fairies are, as you may have heard in stories from your childhood, rather elusive creatures.

Especially when in their native habitat, they can be quite difficult to capture with a camera.

Even with our experience with fairy photography in the past, neither DH nor I could easily capture them this time around.  (Thank you, Emily, for your charming efforts!)

They flit, they float, they fleetly flee and fly. . .

Goodbye. . .

Luckily, while you will occassionally catch one on its own. . .

. . . fairies are usually found in flocks. 

We were fortunate enough to come upon a flock roosting, but still the camera could not capture them well in the dim light of the deep redwood forest.

But of course, like all of God's wild and winged creations, they were quick to flee from the intrusion of much larger creatures bearing cameras.

But if you know some of the natural habits of wild creatures, you can often follow.  In this case, we have enough experience with fairies to know they are drawn to water. 

And to know that the glimpses we get of fairies in the wild--frustratingly hard as they are to effectively capture--are so much closer to the truth of these amazing creature's existence than any image we could capture of them in captivity.  It is through their uninhibited flittering and frolicking in their natural environment that we can see them as God intended them to be.