Blooming Goodness!

I have my first blooming Daffodil of spring today! Such a welcome site with it's shining yellow bloom at the edge of my woods. There will be more to come each day as all of the other blooming plants start out a subdued shade of green and progress to an explosion of blooms in every shade. Only a long cold winter could inspire a poet to pen a verse about the beloved Daffodil!

"Daffodils" (1804)

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 host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretch'd in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

Have a bright yellow day!