I wish I had more to say…but what else is there to say??? Fantastic!!! 
I have some serious practice at poetry mangling in the Hummus forum to thank for this. 
You should see my improved version of Tintern Abbey … with werewolves!
Jack–lovely. The memories those bring back. Someday soon (maybe next fall) I am going to plant them all around my pond. Banks upon banks of them. So I can pick them with my beautiful wife and my little girl in the spring.
MT–Excellent. I love that (original) poem. Highly approve of your version, though.
T
If you plant them, you might not want to do “banks upon banks,” because they multiply pretty fast.
Ah, but this is Wyoming, where the skies are not cloudy all day (because it hardly ever rains). Those banks upon banks will be required just to get a few to survive and bloom. They won’t spread beyond the damp margins of the pond, I promise. But the few that survive–how beautiful.
T
All right then, here’s a guy with some really big nuts!
You’ve never been here, I see.
He didn’t specify how short-lived!
You need to get to the Orlando area.
Just this past week, I have noticed so many yellow Daffodils blooming everywhere.
I love daffodils, but have to make do with cut ones shipped in from far away. (Hmmm . . . another contributor to carbon-footprint guilt). When I moved into my current home, the previous owner said she’d planted 200 bulbs the fall before. I think they were mostly tulips with some daffodils. Three tulips came up that year, and none returned the year after. Some years later I tried planting daffodil bulbs, in good prepared soil, following the instructions from the nursery. None came up. An acquaintance who knows a lot about growing flowers told me it was silly to plant them out in the fall like the nursery told me to. He grew beautiful daffodils, but dug the bulbs up each fall and stored them in a cold cellar (I can’t remember the temperature, but he was very specific about it). That’s more work than I can handle for flowers. Irises thrive here, but daffodils are too much work. For yellow I have some nice globeflowers. Those early flowers will bloom in June here.
We live just south of the “Daffodil Capital of America” Gloucester, Virginia. It isn’t as popular of a crop as it was but there are still patches here and there. Some friends have a bulb business there that is, I think, the best in the country. http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/ There is a festival every year. 2009 Daffodil Festival, Saturday, March 28 & Sunday, March 29
Here..in Alaska…we talking cold or what?
It is a thought that I cannot get my head around..
Mind ye, I did have the misfortune to fall in love with Smilla..
she knew cold and all…
Flowers are a victory..up there..
just a thought…
Slan,
D.