The snow on our deck has been invaded with bean pods!
Ok, maybe you think I’ve flipped my lid. Well, maybe I have.
What started out as frustration with our beautiful white snow being invaded by the bean pods from our honey locust tree have now turned into a new fascination. They are EVERYWHERE!
It is unusual for our tree to have dropped so many bean pods already. Usually they hang on until March or April. Maybe it has to do with global warming. I don’t know.
Our honest locust tree is a wonderful shade tree in the summer months, but the bean pods make me whine a bit when I think about all the raking we will have to do come spring.
I’ve often wondered if there was something crafty I could do with them. So I googled it. I found out you can dry them and spray paint them and add to floral decorations. Hmmmmm. Might have to try that. Then I noticed someone selling bunches of them on Etsy for $7.00 a bunch. Hmmmmm. Maybe I should look at all of them in my yard currently as dollar bills!
But then I read that they attract faeries! “Honey Locust pods are a useful tool to attract and welcome the Faeries as they are cautious, wary little creatures, and love safe places to hide. Mighty thorns from this tree create a tangible, impenetrable fortress and also protect fairy clearings.”
To think I have all this fairy magic flitting about in my yard has me rethinking these bean pods.
So maybe if I accept what is, and sit very quietly, I may see all the little faeries at play. And by the looks of all the bean pods still on our tree, I’d say our yard is one magical land of wonder! 