Uploaded on February 3, 2012

Come to me and play with me,
I’m the babies’ flower;
Make a necklace gay with me,
Spend the whole long day with me,
Till the sunset hour.

I must say Good-night, you know,
Till tomorrow’s playtime;
Close my petals tight, you know,
Shut the red and white, you know,
Sleeping till daytime.

—Cicely Mary Barker
A Deluxe Book of Flower Fairies


02.03.204: I must say that I love this image, and it has managed to attract more than a thousand views on Flickr. I guess I’ll leave it up over there.