Now that I have returned from the “kingdom by the sea”, to quote Poe from his hauntingly beautiful Annabel Lee, I will no longer be encountering the lovely Nereids. I will however have ample opportunities to encounter the equally lovely elusive and dangerous wood or forest nymphs, otherwise known as Dryads (from the Greek word for tree).

The world is too full of different kinds of beauty in different places not to believe in a divine creator of it all…