~~Mary Summer Rain
Once upon a time, when our Earth was very young, all living plants, flowers and trees
were the same color -- a very dull gray. Mother Nature looked down and thought how
beautiful the world would be if everything was a different color.
She called upon some of her Spirit Babies who like to play with paints.
These Spirits were always busy thinking up new colors to paint with.
Mother named them Flower Fairies.
Since each Flower Fairy was in charge of a different color, Mother Nature said to them, "Go down on the Earth, and spread your glorious colors on all living plants, flowers, trees and grasses. And when the seasons change, make the colors change too. Go and paint the morning and evening skies. Paint the deserts and the lonely mesas. Painting all you see. I leave the color decisions up to you."
And so the little Flower Fairies giggled with so much happiness. With painting pails and brushes in hand, they came to the Earth and spread all their wondrous colors all about. They had buckets and buckets of hues, tints, and shades of every color.
Tree Nymphs
The dictionary tells us that a "nymph" is a "female Nature Spirit". A Tree Nymph is a girl Nature Spirit that lives among trees. Mother Nature gave these special Babies of hers a very important task to do.
In the Spring time, when all the mother birds are busy building their nests, the Tree Nymphs gather twigs and pieces of straw to help the birds. And when the mother bird has to sit all day keeping her eggs warm, the Tree Nymphs bring her food.
After the eggs have hatched out and the baby birds are noisily chirping and peeping for f ood, the Tree Nymphs watch over the little baby birds while their mothers go our in search of food for them.
The most important job of all though, is when the baby birds decide they want to try to fly like their mamas. Their wings are not always strong enough to hold them up and sometimes the Tree Nymphs are ready to catch a falling fledgling and return it to its nest.
Mother Nature loves all the birds so she sent them Tree Nymph Spirits to guard and watch over them.
The Fairies had such a fun time painting the tree trunks warm browns and chalky whites. Then they spread shades of lush green on each and every leaf. The flowers were gently brushed with tints of every soft color they had.
Just when they were all done, autumn had arrived. Now they started all over again with paints of orange, gold, red, and yellow to dazzle the eyes of all who looked upon them.
