where dips the rocky highland (the waters and the wild #5)

I’d gotten stuck on this one — I had the nails, I had the stick, I had the weird-ass piece of road? pavement? round bit? I just didn’t know how to put them together. So I decided to do my laundry while I thought about it, & found the red plastic bit in the parking lot. Solved!

For this first collection of only faery & pixy home decor pieces I had to go back to an old favorite. Not gonna quote the whole thing here, just the bits you’ll recognize. Go read the whole thing — I never had, until now.

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

— WB Yeats, The Stolen Child

(I feel like Yeats was trying to position being stolen away by the faeries as a bad thing, but tbh I’m not seeing it.)