Delayed Kick-off to Spring

Okay I just wanted to share with all of y'all that my favorite flower is the Daffodil. I think the first time I realized how much I loved them was when I went with my sister, Crystal, and Tracy to Baltimore, MD about 6 years go on a road trip. =) We visited Mt. Vernon one day and I was overwhelmed with the beauty of the yellow daffodils...my only regret is that I didn't pick a "favorite flower" that comes in more choices of color. Nevertheless, the following is a poem that I found to attach to my obsession of the daffodil...I must also confess...I love the name. It's funny.

DAFFODILS: by William Wordsworth

I wandered 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 stretched 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 leaves in glee;

A poet could not be but 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.