Fairy Garden by Diana Stanley Flower Fairy by Diana Stanley Gateway by Diana Stanley	Fragments on Nature and Life (exerpt) Come search the wood for flowers,-- Wild tea and wild pea, Grapevine and succory, Coreopsis And liatris, Flaunting in their bowers; Grass with green flag half-mast high, Succory to match the sky, Columbine with horn of honey, Scented fern and agrimony; Forest full of essences Fit for fairy presences, Peppermint and sassafras, Sweet fern, mint and vernal grass, Panax, black birch, sugar maple, Sweet and scent for Dian's table, Eider-blow, sarsaparilla, Wild rose, lily, dry vanilla,-- Spices in the plants that run To bring their first fruits to the sun. Earliest heats that follow frore Nervèd leaf of hellebore, Sweet willow, checkerberry red, With its savory leaf for bread. Silver birch and black With the selfsame spice Found in polygala root and rind, Sassafras, fern, benzöine, Mouse-ear, cowslip, wintergreen, Which by aroma may compel The frost to spare, what scents so well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love Diana Stanley's artwork as much as I do, you'll appreciate the Windows 98 Desktop theme I've created using Faery Garden as the wallpaper. Just click on the picture to download the theme. This is the theme I have currently on my system, it's my favorite! It contains startup/shutdown screens using Ms. Stanley's art, hummingbird/pink cursors and nature sounds (birds, crickets, frogs, etc.) It is very feminine in it's color scheme, sorry guys! FaeGarden.zip 1MB