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Who knew all this would happen afterwards! Some bright color to see from my little bathroom window each day.

Friday, June 6, 2025

Fantasies large and small

  






I captured this from FaceBook. But there are several more videos also on YouTube under their title.



Every time someone posted a photo or video of these fantastic machines, I was captivated!



Space Odyssey

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A fossil find...proving fairies existed way back when, wherever this was!



Another fairy, painted by Cecily Mary Barker



Posted  to Facebook in 2019, I stated I felt like the tiny bird perched on the fairy's foot.





And finally my sepia photos for today...

Northfork schoolhouse, built around 1895 -1910,Swannanoa/Black Mountain NC. I'd say no wonder the teacher is sitting on the ground! That's a lot of kids!


Oh look, it's a little fairy that might be confused as a child dressed up as one!

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From fantasy fairies to giant puppets, it's all a wonderful way to tell stories. And my inner child still loves imagining these stories.


Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week...where Alan Burnett has hosted a regular prompt for many years from England...and lots of folks have posted some similar photos from their collections of old and/or interesting photos (usually sepia toned).




Today's quote:

Treasure this day and treasure yourself. Truly, neither will ever happen again.

Ray Bradbury



Last year these bowls were at the Tailgate market


22 comments:

  1. ...Barbara, thanks for this fabulous post!

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  2. I love those giant puppets! I'd forgotten I'd seen videos of them.

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    1. They sure are fun to watch...great engineering and people running them.

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    2. Especially when the people put on ponchos when she's taking her shower!

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  3. Hello Barb,
    I love all the fairies and the giant puppets are cool.
    The bowl look pretty.
    Have a great day and happy weekend.

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    1. Happy weekend coming around the corner...hope you enjoy seeing all the critters tomorrow...I'll have some!

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  4. Love the fossil ‘fairy’ and the picture afterward.

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    1. Fairies were photographed very early, in gardens, by children who made them out of paper, if I remember rightly. Well, they could have been real!

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  5. I need more fairies in my life!!!

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  6. The Little Girl Giant video was amazing! So life-like. What fun. I have a collection of Cecily Mary Barker's fairy art postcards. Pixies all. So precious. :)

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    1. I used to have a couple of books of flower fairies. Donated them sometime however.

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  7. Wonderful fossil fairy. It's a mile or two from here, in 1917, that the 'Cottingley Fairies' hoax was carried out by two young girls, who faked some photos of fairies so convincingly that even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes author) believed them.

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    1. Oh that's great that you know that information about those original fairy photos! Such resourceful little girls!

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  8. I believe in fairies and magic! I'm a writer so I should. :)

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  9. Those giant puppets are amazing!

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    1. I didn't realize there were so many videos of them!

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  10. Do you know the story of the young girls who fooled people by making fake photos of fairies in a garden? The funny thing is that people believed the story for 60 years! (Cottingley Fairies)

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  11. I've been captivated by those giant mechanical puppets, too. They have a fantastic quality that is very different than what parade floats or amusement parks present. The fairies are another wonder from an older time when there were many things still unknown about the world. However lately I would not be surprised if people start believing in fairies again.

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  12. From Scotsue - what a fantastic, imaginative post! Love the fairies.

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