daffodils

Thankyou Jack :slight_smile:

Sunshine, peeking through the loosening of Winter’s grasp.

… and not a moment too soon.

Thank you, Jack! Just the bit of brightness I needed on such a dreary day :slight_smile:

You’re welcome. I grew these daffodils and I love them!

Wandering lonely as a cloud …

Daffy Dills, our Tête-à-Têtes are blooming oot side.

They have a lot of names.

In parts of West Virginia, they’re called “Easter flowers,” regardless of whether or not they come on Easter.

:laughing: :laughing:

Close… but no cigar… :laughing:

Slan,
D. :smiley:

I like that one! But then I would. :slight_smile:

They’re lovely. I’m a big fan of daffodils. You never hear much about the scent of daffodils, but it’s one of my faves when it comes to sniffin’ fleurs.

I wonder if (like so many other species) this is partly because hybrid cultivars look fancy but have less stink than the daffodils I grew up with, which were planted long before my family moved in, and had gone feral.

Although ‘feral daffodils’ sounds a lot more menacing than it ought to.

It almost sounds like it could be the title of a horror flick..Attack of the Feral Daffodils :wink:

Have you guys ever heard Daffodil Lament, by the Cranberries?

I have decided to leave you forever.
I have decided to start things from here.
Thunder and lightening can’t change
what I’m feeling
AND-- the daffodils look lovely today.
AND-- the daffodils look lovely, today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2QuwMhsfS8

Lovely song. :slight_smile:

I love that song :slight_smile:

I do too. My favorite part is how it changes moods from dark to light to dark and back again. I associate that song with so many things. The words, “I have decided to leave you forever” have so much emotional weight for me (it’s a good thing).

We don’t have daffodils here.

I bet you can buy them in a florist’s shop. Often times they will put some in the freezer periodically and you can grown them as short-lived houseplants. :slight_smile:

I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A pack, of feral daffodils;
Their vicious hunger to refresh,
Ripping and tearing at my flesh.

Continuous as an endless line
Of zombies in a horror flick,
They stretched their petaled jaws to dine
Upon the margins of my neck:
Ten thousand saw I, drenched in gore,
As quoth the flowers, “Nevermore”.

I always knew there was something missing from the original …

:laughing:

It takes some serious 'nads to Fcuk with Wordsworth…

Slan,
D. :laughing: