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Ostara, believed to be the Goddess of spring, is depicted adorned with flowers. She is said to be joyous, but like the spring weather that quickly shifts sunny skies to rain, she can easily turn sad. Crocus, violets, daffodils, forsythia are symbols of Ostara.#legendarywednesday

Spring fairy for #LegendaryWednesday from Ruth Sanderson's World of Fairies 🧚‍♀️ ✨️

"'Is the spring coming?' he said. 'What is it like?'...
'It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...'"
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
🎨 Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot
#Fairytaletuesday

"Under that benign sky I watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
-Wuthering Heights
#Fairytaletuesday

Alas, we must rejoin the ocean,
While those who wish shall bask upon the rocks.
Motionless, their skins will crystallize,
While splendid warmth fills and blesses them.
-Colleen Swan
🎨 The Renaissance of Venus, Walter Crane
#Fairytaletuesday

The candy cane dates back to 1670, when the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany offered sugar sticks to child singers to keep them quiet during the Living Creche ceremony. In honor of the occasion, he bent the candies into shepherds' crooks.
#LegendaryWednesday

Fairies in a Mountain Landscape by Mary Evans
#Fairytaletuesday

"People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not."
–J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
#BookWormSat

So desperate was the old man to regain his youth, that he grabbed the vial of healing water from Lancelot and gulped it down instantly. Then Lancelot watched in horror as the man’s wrinkles began to fade..
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#Legendarywednesday

"There were badgers here, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be."
- Wind in the Willows
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