Fairy rings

A trip to Northern California

"Plucked from the Fairy Circle," from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)

We’re traveling for the first time since lockdown. We have rented a little room, a trail from the driveway leads to a forest dense with redwood trees, and I was reminded during a walk yesterday of “fairy rings,” the phenomenon of trees g…