A Fairy Blanket

Dear Diary,

The side lawn was covered in fairy blankets this morning!  One little blanket also had a heart shaped "pillow".  A delightful sight.  Henry David Thoreau called these ground spider webs fairy handkerchiefs.  He would take Louisa May Alcott on woodland walks to not only learn but to inspire her imagination:
"They were months of taking walks with Thoreau, who told her that the cobwebby way the dew formed on the Concord grass in the morning was really handkerchiefs left by fairies."  Susan Cheever, Louisa May Alcott, 2010

Imagination is a most precious gift and if left unexercised it will atrophy. I know so many adults that could really benefit from spending more time with little children for in a child's world all things are possible.  I agree with the white queen in Alice in Wonderland:

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."