A tale for today

Cousin Giblen Flora is the one who makes flowers from the beeswax. She holds it in her hand to warm it and tells the bees, who are almost always floating nearby, tales of flowers and giants, fairies and magical forests. Once the beeswax is softened she builds a flower one petal at a time, the smell of honey and her friends the bees keeping her company all the while. She attaches the flowers to branches or the dead stalks of the raspberry bush and gives them to whom she loves...