Mom Beth and the Girls made a beautiful new
Nature Friday Badge honoring the Memory of our friend
Gail
On March 5, 2025, my friend Denise at An English Girl Rambles, posted about
fairies. It reminded me of my Fairy post in 2021.
You might remember my post HERE
I heard there were several other Fairy Doors around the City. After some research, I found four other locations. MD, my driver aka DM, Dad of Madi, and I started our hunt for Fairies we only found one of the four mentioned BUT OMCs was a treasure of a find!!
There was a Fairy Forest at the Wilkerson Nature Preserve Park
On Wednesday, March 10 we drove 11 miles from home to visit
Dr. Annie Louise Wilkerson's Nature Preserve. She was affectionately nicknamed, Dr. Annie by her patients. Dr. Annie first female OB/GYN in Raleigh. The OB/BYN practice was with her brothers. All were Dr. Wilkerson so she went by Dr. Annie. She donated 157 acres of her Family farm to Raleigh for a Nature preserve. We just scratched the surface on the trails. We'll be going back a lot. The hardwood trees will keep it very cool in the spring and summer.
The Fairy Forest trail is just off from the parking a lot. The path is very well marked as you will see from these two collages.
The Fairy Forest trail is just off from the parking a lot. The path is very well marked as you will see from these two collages.
What a delightful time we had following seeing all the creativity some in plain sight others hiding.
Millie and Walters mom commented below about the collage below:
Did you see the secret red door? In the 4th collage (outlined in red) of your post (not counting the FFF badge), in the picture in the upper right quadrant there is a teeny tiny red door with some stone steps leading up to it at the top of the picture. We made the picture as big as possible to see it. Biggify the collage to find it.
Imagination is encouraged. We saw seashells twigs arranged in teepee style and
elaborately painted houses with whirlygigs on them
The 157 acres have educational buildings on it and a huge pond.
As we approached the pond, we saw a great blue heron take off from the pond.
There are several beaver dams.
Random photo collage of just a few trails and sights we'll be going back
Can you imagine a meadow of Magnificent Monarch Butterflies
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Thank you for hosting!
March 28, 2014 was
Respect your kitty day??!!
MOM DON'T BE DISRESPECTING ME!!!
REMEMBER MY
PEEPS
ARE WATCHING YOU
I'm not disrespecting you Madi
You have a purrfect Tushie everyone should see!!
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