Sunday was one of those days. You know the kind I mean, one of those wonderful Pre-Spring days where the sky is a brilliant blue, birds are singing and flowers are starting to explode out of the ground from their long winter hibernation. The kind that makes you want to open all the windows and just breath in the fresh air of the new season.
It was such a lovely day and I could not help but take a few pictures of my sunny, bright yellow daffodils. They were just amazing! So cheerful as they gently nodded their heads in the subtle breeze.
Also known as Narcissus, I was reminded of a little book I had by Cicely Mary Barker called Flower Fairies of the Garden, written in 1944. I bought the little book many years ago at a garden show and loved the depictions of flowers as fairies.
In that book, there is a short poem about the Narcissus Fairy and I knew they must have been out and about while I was photographing my daffodils. The poem in the book refers to the white blossomed variety, but in my garden I have many varieties, from these sunshiny, golden yellows to pure white to pink and peach.
These yellow are always the first to pop open every Spring. Let me share Cicely’s poem with you now:
Brown bulbs were buried deep;
Now, from the kind old earth,
Out of the winter’s sleep,
Come’s a new birth!
Flowers on stems that sway;
Flowers of snowy white,
Flowers as sweet as day,
After the night.
So does Narcissus bring
Tidings most glad and plain:
“Winter’s gone; here is Spring —
Easter again!”~ Cicely Mary Barker
I can hardly wait until March 20th, the official start of Spring!
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