DO FAIRIES WORRY ABOUT SUCCESS?

Since bees go about their business of making honey day after day the main success they achieve is finding flowers and bringing nectar back to the hive to make honey.  I had never thought about success before I heard Marus and his sisters, Non Ton and Hilda, talk about being a success or failure in watching over some humans they were trying to help.  I guess when you can do a lot of different things in a lot of different ways you can have successes or failures.  Overhearing the fairies talk made me want to try a few things for myself.  Now I can fly in different patterns and can buzz with a little more variety.  Maybe tomorrow I will think of some more things I can try.  I had to have a few failures before I could learn how to do the things I was trying to do.  So I think that if those fairies would quit worrying they would be a lot better at helping humans.  Maybe the next time they try to help they will do a lot better.  I wonder if bees can be helpful.  Of course the honey we share is pretty wonderful.
I think I will go find some flowers and spend some time wondering about things as well.  Do you wonder about things?  Delbert Bee signing off till next time.

NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT WAYS TO USE SPIDER SILK

Hilda was worrying about the way her brother, the fairy Marus had burned part of his wings.  If they were too damaged he would lose his ability to fly.  While she was looking for soothing and healing herbs to make a salve for his wings she ran into her friend, the spider Zenna.  Hilda already knew that Zenna was very creative with her webs.  Suddenly she thought that spider silk might used to mend the wings Marus had damaged by flying through a fire.  She got Zenna to give her a bunch of silk and was able to mend her brother's wings.  This gave Zenna a lot of ideas as well and she began to make all kinds of things with her weaving besides spider webs.  Ideas are wonderful things and lead to even more ideas.  I wonder if I can think of different ways to use honey. This is Delbert Bee here.  I'm going to buzz of now and think about honey.

DO BEES ENJOY SCENERY OR DO THEY JUST FOCUS ON FLOWERS?

Hi, Delbert Bee here.  Some people think that all bees know how to do is work.  Well I say that all work and no play makes for a boring day and a boring bee.  So I try to enjoy what I see as I go along.  Maybe that is why I pick up so much news.  I saw the fire in Montrachet that caused so many other things to happen.  I saw how sad Gerda and Tom were about it.  If other bees are like me, and I think they are, then bees see a lot.  So if you are planning something naughty watch out.  A bee might catch you at it.  Or a spider or a fly.  Insects do talk among themselves.  Of course it isn't every human that can understand a tell tale bee.  It still isn't a good idea to be naughty.  There were some very naughty creatures around Thimblewyck.  But they didn't get away with the things they did for very long.  Well, I want to fly over to the castle to see if there are some new roses blooming.  I really love roses.  I had better buzz off.

POLLS SHOW BELIEF IN FAIRIES IS RISING

All of my hive believes in fairies, of course.  But I decided to ask a few humans if they believed.  That wasn't easy because the only humans that understand me are the ones that live on and around Thimble Farm.  Finally I talked to Farmer Tom Thimble and he agreed to ask people about fairies when he went to town to sell his eggs.  He told me that many people said fairies were hard to see but were important because of their love of nature.  One woman said that too few humans loved nature enough and fairies were needed to remind people how important this was.  I was jealous for a bit.  Bees love nature too.  Where would the world be without us?  There would be a lot less food grown, that is for sure.  Then I calmed down.  If love for nature becomes more popular it will be good for bees as well as for fairies.  I'd better buzz off now.  I want to think of other things to research and there is some honeysuckle I can visit.  It helps me think.

Why Is Fairy Mountain So Special?

Fairy Mountain and the beautiful water feature there, Crystal Spring are very special to Fairies.  I wonder why.  I think it is because both of the fairy clans in Umberland, around Thimblewyck cooperated to keep it special.  All fairies are concerned with nature but each of the two clans are concerned with different aspects of nature.  The two clans are the Li-Su and the Petra clans.  The Li-Su are concerned with plants and animals. The Petra are concerned with rocks, earth and the weather.  Petra stands for rock in another language.  Li-Su stands for life sustaining.  You have heard of fairy gold probably.  Those fairies are of the Petra clan.  Rosequet was a Petra.  Binar and his cousins, Non Ton, Hilda and Marus were all of the Li-Su clan.  The weather is always perfect on Fairy Mountain.  The water is clear.  The plants and trees are beautiful and healthy.  I'm sure both clans cooperated to create it and keep it that way.  Maybe fairies are like bees.  We cooperate in the hive.  I'd better get back to the hive now.  Bye.

ARE THE WATERS OF CRYSTAL SPRING ALWAYS PURE?

Delbert here again with a bit of gossip.  I have only been to Crystal Spring one time.  It is kind of special to fairies and I felt like an intruder.  I did hear once that Marus, Hilda, Binar and Non Ton had to wash off mud from getting caught in a terrible flood and they nearly ruined Crystal Spring.  But they filtered it with spider silk, from Zenna or course, and everything was fine.  It is a beautiful place.  Well, I've got to go put my nose in a few things.  Delbert.