Harvest Parade

The whimsical part of Autumn is definitely when the little bugs, bats, spiders, ghosts, and goblins march through the dark trees.

Black Fairy V

The play is divided into four major scenes:

Autumnal garden tea, Halloween night, Christmas dinner after a cold walk to grandma's house, spring coronation, and summer visit by mother earth.

It teaches the value of nature, beauty, and wisely living through the good and bad in life.

Black Fairy IV

Casting characters are in order of importance; rose fairy queen, black tulip, black dahlia, seven white doves, witch, birds, bees, butterflies, and the curious lady bug whose name is Tiny Tim.

He stays up late and watches in amazement how the poison ivy spreads her poison green sparkly bits all over the ground and worries a little. Only to his amazement he gets to see tiny green fairy with her tiny little wand who busily cancels the spell.

Next, he falls asleep and wonders why everyone is fussing so early in the morning.

He steps outside and sees the cute little kiddies in green popping out of ground like sprouts.

The Black Fairy III

During the feast of annual coronation, the royal birds, butterflies, and bees gather to silently watch the march of the queen and the black fairies.

After the queen is crowned by seven heavenly white doves, she announces that in the year before, each creature must adopt a plant or small animal to care for.

Mother earth smiles at her and winks in admiration. All creatures carry on happy tunes and dance cheerfully.

The poison ivy plant hides behind the bushes and watches them with anger or resentment perhaps. She knows children are warned against her. She sits there and plots to scatter her green and sparkly poison bits from her stems and leaves onto the earth. She does so, as fast as she can manage.

The party ends and everyone goes to a long and dark sleep under the moon. A tiny fairy comes fluttering about and shaking her magic wand on all the green and sparkly poison bits on the ground until the green blossoms into tiny sprouts. The next morning the tiny sprouts had turned into wonderful delicate green and sparkly flowers. Small children pop out of each green sprout and wave in the wind. It's a new beginning.

The Black Fairy II

The witch as I said before keeps popping her head out her candy house for kids to approach. Nobody falls for her tricks so she keeps doing the head out of the candy house popping for background attraction.

During the play, the black dahlia and the black tulip accompany the queen of black roses everywhere. When the small or large forest animals come to offer the annual gift to the queen, she often accepts and gives away floral halo, wings, and wands as gifts of her enchantment.

Music is often played during the scenes and there's hardly any dialogue. Only silent movements and simple dance movements.

The sound of nature and birds can be heard in the distance.

Every character can wear leopards and ballet or flat shoes. Glitter is used on dress, make up, and fruit baskets. Spray paint can help turn ordinary things into enchanting silver or gold ornaments, furniture, or fixtures.

The Black Fairy

The black fairies are a few because each takes care of a different black flower. Black Dahlia wears her hair in a knot. Black tulip smiles as she enters the hall and kneels before the queen as she offers her most treasured gift, her golden chicken.

The queen is the black rose in nature and thorny around nails, with a long narrow nose, and deeply dark and full hair.

They drink the earliest morning dew before everyone wakes and as soon as the first rays of sun warm the mother earth, the black fairies are gone into the deep dark cradle of the forest.

The witch answers the door to the magical house made up of candy. Everyone is afraid of her until they realize the bloody hand that answers the door and gives a loud roar of laughter is actually a fake trick.

To be continued...

Late summer landscape

My two autumnal landscapes

Freedom

My name means "the one who holds freedom". It appears in many Persian texts, songs, social and political poetry, and within Farsi books on all library shelves.

I believe all humans are born free and have the right to live free.

I stand strongly on freedom of dress, expression, speech, style, and endeavors. All people of this world who enjoy music, art, cultures, and sports, education, and expression must in many symbolic and humanistic fashions, stand united with the people of Iran.