So close
March 14, 2009
Recently G and I have got into the habit of buying a couple of bunches of daffs during our weekly shop. I love having cut flowers around the house but to be frank most of the times they are a luxury rather than a necessity on our budget. But for 99p a bunch how can you not afford a beautiful bunch of cheerfulness.
Thanks to the new routine the new bunch are just about opening up out of their tight folds just as the previous weeks bunches are being to dry and die off. Which means that I am never without my beloved splash of yellow, orange or white.
I don't think it is news to anyone that visits here regularly that my feelings on daffodils are strong ones. M loves and adores so I always try and sprinkle them about here so that she can get her fix. But more than that they are the heralding of Spring. Just after the daffs come out the forsythia appears, which was one of my Daddy's favorite plants and following that the whole world seems to come alive again.
The days get longer and lighter and the end of the miserable tunnel that is the darkness of Winter starts to lift and my mood with it. Daffodils mean the return of me to being myself again. To feeling that bounce back in step and a new optimism to meet each day with a smile.
Who would have thought that 99p could buy such amazing joy.
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Beautiful!!
they are beautiful, I love their delicate fragrance too.
Me too – they are the only cut flowers I feel 100% justified in buying whenever I fancy them.
I love them but hate the smell so I rarely bring them into the house. I can’t wait for the ones out front of my home to bloom. It’s been too cold here. I try to buy some flowers when I shop, too. It helps with the winter gloom but they have been rather expensive and I sometimes can’t justify the expense…..
Daffs must be one of the very few flowers that never fail to cheer a person up (even just the name is cheerful!). I remember the first time we visited the UK and on our first day we were walking to Buckingham Palace and there were daffs in the parks and I thought it was fabulous!
Lovely photographs. Must admit, I too can’t resist popping a couple of bunches into the shopping trolley. Then all I have to do is plonk them in a vase and stick them on the window sill to wake up the kitchen.
I love daffs, they are so cheerful
April xx
They’re great, aren’t they! I love tuilips too, for the same reason. They just speak of hope and future warm days.
Gorgeous photos!!! Hooray for spring!