faeriemag:

Colorado photographer Marsha Steckling sent us these special “Fairy Queen” photos starring her radiant mother Sharron Rhoads. Sharron will be turning 80 this fall and is our new idol. “We both have always loved the theme of the Fairy Queen,” Marsha says, “and put together her costume and created the photographs in a park near my home.”

#the fairy queen ages and grows old with the seasons#and is reborn into youth in the spring#in the winter the softness of youth is pared away#and in her you can see the unbreakable strength and stone of the bare earth (via @prettyarbitrary)