In my mind’s eye the colour of spring is tender: pink and white and violet, and dimpled daffodil yellow; diaphanous blue; soft, lush green; all steeped in warm, lemon honey sunshine. But that is not often the reality of spring, particularly in Christchurch where, in September, the average sunshine hours per day number 5.5.
No, the colour of spring is more nuanced than my mind’s eye would have it. It is frequently overcast with grey,
and dim drizzle, (skip to the end of the video if you are interested in the cherry blossom)
and shaded skies.
But for all that my spring is not mental picture-perfect, I still love it. And I will take it any way it comes.
That video is a beauty — mesmerizing to see the daffodils in the park while listening to that soothing, refreshing music — and those cherry trees — wow! All cities and towns should have one or more avenues of such cherry trees, especially for those spring times when the weather is grey.
Cherry trees really do lift one’s spirit. They seem to have an aura of peace.
Relieved that Autumn hasn’t completely disappeared in my absence. 🙂 A little more colour yet?
Still colour, although today is another one with grey skies.
We’ve pinched your sun! Sorry 😦 Can’t do much with it as I’m waiting in for a call from the solicitor but it’s smiling at me. 🙂
I am glad the sun was smiling at you; a smile is usually helpful before discussions with a solicitor. 🙂
He seems a pleasant chap 🙂
Excellent.
Oooh! Those daffodils are lovely. They count as sunshine, don’t they? Your table can’t look overcast with those smiles lighting it up! 🙂
Indeed! The table is always a bright spot on any given day. Is your garden ready for winter?
I just finished cutting back some tall perennials for the winter and dismantled all my pretty lights for the seasons. *sniff* Almost all tucked in and ready for snow!
You sound very prepared. Hope it doesn’t snow too soon, though.
We already had a week or so of snow but it melted so all is well for a few more weeks….
It will be back in time to give you a White Christmas. 🙂
I love your descriptions so much! And the video is beauteous. So, so wonderful, mesmerising even. Can’t but notice how lovely empty the park was, thanks to the grisaille! 😉
Our main park is rarely crowded even when the sun shines. We are spoiled. 🙂
Yes you are!
Each season has its yin/yang moments. Your philosophy encourages the appreciation of the here and now. That’s a healthy outlook. Spring has always meant rejuvenation to me, and the rains are part of that process. But after winter “we” crave color and light to heal us. Enjoy the glorious moments of spring. We’re in autumn here on the East Coast, USA. Colors are slow to hit the leaves. But acorns abound. Enjoy your weekend and spring treats.
Thank you, Sally. I like the idea of yin/yang in each season.
Such beautiful flowers… lovely post!… are you in Australia!? … It is Spring here in Argentina too! … wishing you a lovely weekend. Aquileana 😀
In New Zealand, Aquileana. What lovely spring flowers are around you?
Gotcha… well many flowers, but in my garden, roses…. have an excellent sunday.
Ah, lovely! I expect my roses to bloom in early November.
Cherry blossom is such an iconic sign of spring isn’t it – beautiful. And I guess that we should be thankful for the greys because they help showcase the other colours so wonderfully! 🙂
PS – talking of greys – I am in love with this yarn http://www.brityarn.co.uk/product/West-Yorkshire-Spinners-Signature-4-ply-Sock-wool-Birds and am trying to find a pattern/excuse to knit with it! 🙂
Love the way the wool is named after birds. Are you a sock knitter? Or a glove knitter? Someone made me a pair of sideways gloves; I love them. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sideways-garter-stitch-gloves I also love my fingerless gloves. I am thinking about warm woollies you could use for your holiday next year. 🙂
wow those gloves are funky! thanks so much for these suggestions, which are utterly perfect – really nice of you to be thinking of what I might need next year 🙂 I know of loads of hat/mitts combos so will have a browse and get ordering!! Re socks, I love the idea of knitting socks but so far have not managed to embrace it – perhaps this is my chance and I could have a trio of matching items!! 🙂
A trio of matching items! That would be fun. I know you are not short of knitting sources or resources but have you met the lovely Johanna? https://colorpencil2014.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/lately-sketch-journal-project-and-knitting-and-more/ Her knitting is joyful. 🙂
Oh wow, what a great blog – thanks so much for leading me to it! 🙂
It’s one of my favourites. 🙂
Yes, yes, they do. That’s also why I am grateful for my grey hair! It does wonders for my pink cheeks. 😀 More seriously, and somewhat related to cherry blossom, I am enamoured by the way Empress Michiko does ‘grey’ to great effect. https://royalhats.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/birthday-of-empress-michiko-2/#comments
Lol! And yes, the Empress really demonstrates how to wear grey with grace and style – thanks for this interesting link 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it. Lately I have enjoyed learning a bit more about the Empress.
very beautiful color
thank you for haring
kisses
Thank you, voulaah. 🙂 🙂
oh you’re very welcome dear
kisses
Your beautiful words launched me right back into spring. I know what you mean about the gray drizzle. It’s like that here a lot too, but sometimes the colors are more noticeable then. I love your daffodils – they do look good enough to eat!
Thank you, Sheila. The grey has temporarily given way to heat and sun. And the daffodils have given way to the azaleas and the rhododendrons. It’s hard to keep up with all the changes. 😉
You set such a lovely table, lovely post, and lovely video. Spring is my favorite season. May your spring be full of pleasant floral surprises.
Blessings ~ Wendy
Wendy, there was the most beautiful floral surprise today. A beautiful blue flower on the flax plant. I planted a whole packet of flax seeds last year. Only one plant survived. This is the first flower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax
I’m so glad to hear that. And blue is the blue ribbon of garden colour for many people too. A lovely surprise. You’ve brought back a sweet memory for me from one of my old gardens. Yes, those unexpected floral delights make it fun.
🙂 Yes, every day in the garden there’s something new to discover, especially when, as happens in my garden, plants make up their own rules.
They sure do. My foxgloves insist in growing outside the borders. 🙂
LOL! And I have parsley growing in my lawn!
Is it so the rabbits and robins won’t have bad breath? 🙂
Of course! Although I would be dreadfully surprised if I did see a rabbit in my garden. However, one must always be prepared for the unexpected guest.
Rabbits, raccoons, deer, black bear, and a menagerie of birds and rodents; we’ve had them all. My favorite guest was an owl who I wish would return now that I have a camera which could capture a better shot than the blurred photograph I got on his/her first visit. 🙂 Don’t wish for rabbits as they nibble on beloved plants. But they make for fun photography.
Goodness that is a menagerie indeed. I was about to say nothing that exciting ever happens here but then I remembered the large briard sheep dog which bounded up the driveway on Saturday. She didn’t want any parsley. It was just a pit-stop. 😀 Hope the owl returns.
Ha! I still don’t have an answer to your question in the last post as to ‘does your life have a soundtrack’ but I can say that in my darker days in NYC before I found my dream my life did have a Saint-Saëns sound track feel to it. And now here he is in your beautifull video. Luckily, since I discovered and started living my passion, my life has popped more like the cherry blossoms at the video’s end. I will get back to you with what my sound track is today as soon as I figure it out. Love the spring blooms in color and black and white. Miss those flowers here in the tropics.
Lisa, I probably should have asked “Does your life have soundtracks?”As a traveller and a seafarer, you must have multiple soundtracks. 🙂
Well, I love these flowers so much, that we used to live on Daffodil Drive! Smile…
How lovely to have once lived on Daffodil Drive. The thought of it makes me smile, too.
You are a lovely person. I am honored to know you just a bit.
Ditto! 🙂 🙂 🙂
It’s always so neat to see opposite seasons on the other side of the world. It’s fall over here, but I am loving it. Those yellow flowers are incredible! xo
You are a life enthusiast, Britt. 😉 I also like seeing opposite seasons. Sometimes I become so involved in the fall depictions on northern hemisphere blogs that I often forget where I am. I will look up and out, and, for a moment, wonder why the garden isn’t wearing autumn robes! Smh! Such incidents usually mean it’s time to take a computer break. 😀
Thank you for taking me on a walk in your spring garden. We can no longer guarantee our spring will consist of the colors you talked of at the top of your post and I also dearly love. Each year summer arrives sooner and is hotter than the one before. Summer also leaves later in the year and when winter does arrive, it’s harsh and wicked.
My gardens were hurt this year from the extreme heat. Now I’m in a rush to prepare the beds for the winter and Tom has taken a down-turn.
I’m researching for carefree plants still pleasing to the eye yet able to withstand the brutal heat. They are required to bloom at least part of the year – any suggestions?
I hope your garden will have a chance to recuperate from the intensity of your summer heat. A favourite plant in my garden is Ceanothus Blue Sapphire. In this article the suggestion is to ‘make a blue border with Ceanothus ‘Blue Sapphire’, using such plants as annual honeywort, Cerinthe major, blue aquilegias, lavenders, perennial salvias, Lithodora ‘Grace Ward’ and, towards the rear, Dichroa ‘Blue Sapphires’, an evergreen hydrangea relative which flowers from spring to autumn.’ I have cerinthe major in my garden as well as aquilegias, and lavender. I have had salvias and Lithodora ‘Grace Ward’ but they weren’t as hardy as I expected them to be. http://liddlewonder.nz/schemedetail.php?plantid=747 Gazanias are good value, too. But I don’t know how well any of these plants would do under your extreme heat. 😦 Blessings to you and Tom.
Thanks for your wonderful suggestions. I’ve been working in the garden [when it’s cool enough preparing the soil for new designs and adding in additional nourishment, etc. I continue to have an amazing amount of color and texture considering the amount of heat we’ve had. I decided to stop watering about a month ago just to see what could and would survive and some of the plants have surprised me to no end.
Thank you for the suggestions and will beginning looking up the plants I don’t already know this evening. I have lavender salivas by the front door and they are blooming beautifully at the present time. To give you an idea – their directions say full sun and I have them in full shade! I have several different colors of ganzias in the wildflower mix and they are of course going strong and wanting to take over the garden. I’ll dig up and move several mature plants to get them out of the sun. Both of my honeysuckles grew like crazy but couldn’t take the sun and never bloomed and one is a native. It was blooming beautifully until I moved it to the front yard! I’ve had large lavender gardens before and may do that again. I love the blues, lavenders, mauve, pink and so on – I’ve bought up plants as they went on end of season sale and looked awful and have been nursing them back to health. Thank you so much for adding your wisdom and knowledge to help me. Sheri
Your garden reflects the care and love and resilience that resides in your home and in your heart. 🙂
I love your poetic description of the spring colours, Gallivanta! And your flower arrangement ~ beautiful as always. The video, too, was “all spring” 🙂
Thank you, Tiny. Are you bracing for my wild weather?
Well, even an overcast day is cheered considerably by a nice bunch of daffodils. 🙂
Indeed it is. Your blog puts cheer in the day as well. 🙂
Hey, thank you! 🙂
🙂 🙂
You’re not alone in combining daffodils with Satie’s “Gymnopédie #3”. He was a strange guy.
Dare I say “Great minds think alike”? Satie was very idiosyncratic, and from what I read in the link not inclined to spring cleaning or any cleaning at all. Wonder if he liked daffodils?
He might well have, given that he was a bit daffy.
Ha!
Like you, I am always happy for Spring’s arrival, colorful or grey. It would never occur to me to shoot cherry blossoms in monochrome, but I enjoyed yours along with the piano. Also, like you, I would not eat our daffs. Actually, I think I have only eaten a flower, in the traditional flower sense, once…pansies in a salad.
My experience of flowers as food is that they are pretty rather than tasty, with the possible exception of borage which is both pretty and tasty. With the sun still hidden by grey skies, I guess I see the world through a grey filter at the moment. Hence spring in monochrome! But not for too much longer, I hope.
I love how you described Spring with color, and that trip down the street lined with cherry blossoms…..beautiful. In my opinion, we have a lot of grey skies in the Spring and Summer due to thunderstorms. There are too many for me. When the sun does come out it is so humid that it feels better to just stay indoors.
I remember something like that re thunderstorms on a long ago visit to Lexington, Kentucky. Thunderstorms are infrequent in Christchurch. Which is just as well, because I don’t like them! What is your main flower in spring?
Daffodils are the first to show up, but I like when the Magnolia trees start to bloom. They are beautiful.
Ah, magnolias; such beauties. In Christchurch, I think the magnolias are well into bloom before the daffodils appear en masse.
We have a tree native to the South (I believe), called a Redbud–it probably has a scientific name but it has the most beautiful blooms. Kind of between a pink and purple. To me they are stunning.
Oh yes, I have seen photos of Redbuds on Steve Schwartzman’s blog https://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/and-a-look-at-an-even-denser-and-more-vibrant-blossoming-redbud-tree/ The blooms are gorgeous. 🙂 🙂
‘Taking spring as it comes’: this sounds like a good philosophy! I couldn’t find the comments box, but clicked ’69 replies’ at the top, and voila, here I am.
And the video is beautiful, smooth and gentle, with time to absorb the wonder of spring flowering. Thank you.
Thank you, Juliet. I am glad you enjoyed the video. I had plenty of time to take the views I wanted. I was almost the only one viewing the blossom and the bulbs.
And Juliet I am so glad you are here. I have been looking all over the house for your book “Celebrating the Southern Seasons” as I wanted to give another commenter an idea of a native spring in NZ. I can’t find your book and now think I lent it to my cousin! If you would like to I would love a link to any post of yours which mentions the ‘natural’ New Zealand spring.
Hi Gallivanta, oh dear that book does tend to ‘walk’! Try these posts on my blog page:
http://www.julietbatten.co.nz/season-of-surprise or
http://www.julietbatten.co.nz/in-search-of-spring/
and you might enjoy the short video I made on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/JulietBattenBooks/ (scroll down a little to 4 October)
Thank you for all the links, Juliet. I enjoyed them all. Today when I was out walking I noticed the kowhai were thick with deep golden blossom. Beautiful. 🙂
I love your video! You have such a steady hand. The cherry trees are so lovely and especially wonderful when planted in a long avenue. I was aware of daffodils being poisonous – the mice don’t dig them up like they do crocus and tulip bulbs. I understand about grey and damp springs; we get them here too – which makes the rare bright sunny day all the more special.
Sensible mice. 🙂 Yes, I think the damp and grey of spring is probably under-reported everywhere because of those brilliant spring days which lull us into forgetfulness of the less pleasant aspect of spring.
Yes! 🙂
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How lovely.
Thank you, Alys.
Beautiful, new life and colour as we fade to winter. Looking forward to some spring cheer from ‘down under’ 🙂
I will send as much as I can. 🙂
Looking forward to your spring! 🌱🌱🐝
🙂 🙂
Delicious, delicious, delicious!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙂 🙂
No don’t eat daffs! I’ll take Spring anyway too. It has been so wet in Auckland, but at least no wind!
Compared to your rainfall, I really have nothing to complain about! The wind, though, has been screeching round the house today, but seems to be quieter now. I don’t know why Wellington gets all the ‘glory’ for being windy. ( Something to do with the extra wind from the Beehive perhaps???) There’s plenty of wild wind elsewhere in the country! More than once I have struggled to stand upright in central Christchurch -no I was not drunk!-, and I expect you struggle sometimes on your windswept coastline. :).
What a wonderful reply! True about Welly .. Even Auckland gets nailed by the wind. I didn’t realise that CC was windy. I have been known to get whipped about on our hill and beach 😃
LOL! Perhaps NZ should be renamed the windy, shaky isles.
Had we not visited Wellington, I wouldn’t understand your little jibe. The name of the street that the Beehive is on, Molesworth, could be taken as the value of the goings-on inside the building.
Ha!
A great observation, Steve.
Absolutely. Spring and Autumn – my two favourite seasons. (Though our summer this year was also really nice.) We just planted our daffodils, and my husband, who had hundreds of them at the other place, went and got some more. As we head into our cold months here, you must promise to post lots of pictures of daffodils and other pretty blooms, okay? I do NOT like winter.
Ah, dear Cynthia, winter is such a hard time for you. Hugs! Hopefully, this winter you can sustain yourself with the thought of all the beautiful daffodils which will spring forth in your new garden. And because of their toxicity, you need not worry that little critters will devour them. Just a thought, did you bring a cutting of the wisteria to plant in the garden? 😉
Ha. Ha. Ha. You bad girl. Why do you want me to be haunted by memories of my bloomless wisteria?
I thought a new garden might be its chance to redeem itself. 😀 And I know you like a challenge. 😀
I think that a couple of years ago I did a post called “sometimes cloudy days are best” – and not just for taking beautiful photos such as you have done here but for everything!
I believe you did, Heather. And, indeed, I did hope that the cloud and drizzle would allow me to get a good photo of the blossom. It didn’t but I still think I did better than other times where I have tried to capture the blossom against a very contrasting blue sky. I hope you are being blessed with all the cloudy days you need. 🙂
I think that I am now really ready for a bit of sun in my life too! 😉
Well, if you want to try and find some in the southern hemisphere, you would be a welcome guest. 🙂 🙂
Thank you…very much. Oh if only for the air fare!
I know 😦 I know 😦
I’m enjoying autumn, but must admit that I’m slightly jealous that it’s spring where you are. 🙂 It’s fun to see the pictures in b&w and color. The b&w one really draws my attention to the lovely pitcher that you used as a vase – while I notice the flowers in the color one.
The pitcher is a recent purchase ( on sale!). I am very pleased with it
With autumn you will no doubt have lots of posts on how people kept themselves warm and healthy and entertained 100 years ago. 😉
This is lovely; and so true. Spring is definitely the season of grey dampness. Our poor freesias have all been battered by the rain and are looking very bedraggled.
After last night’s rain, I expect there will be more bedragglement here. And to confirm our experiences of grey dampness, the weather pundits say this http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/la-nina-conditions-now-affecting-new-zealand Keep smiling!
Oh joy! Still, at least the water tank will be full and the garden will thrive (weeds as well I guess). 🙂
Weeds will definitely thrive. Never mind, they make good mulch.
Spoken like a true gardener.
😀 😀
Those daffodils are beautiful! (but I never knew they were poisonous – yikes!) 😀
Of course, they are perfectly harmless, unless we decide to eat them. Fair enough really; if I were in danger of being picked or eaten I might develop some toxic defences. 😉
When I was writing Wolf Pear I found out that tomato leaves and stalks are poisonous as they’re part of the Deadly Nightshade family. That was a shock to me 😉
Yes, that aspect of tomatoes always troubles me a bit. How can one part of the plant be completely safe and the rest of it not, sort of thing. What if there is leakage between the parts. I know! totally silly thinking. I worry about rhubarb, too. Am I quite sure there’s no leaf remnant on the stalk etc etc. As you can see, it won’t be a plant that kills me. It will be my worries. 🙂
Oh, what gorgeous daffodils! Great reading a post again – and love the colour changings!
Enjoy the changing colours in your neighbourhood. 🙂
Bunches of daffodils are so wonderful and make me feel spring even when the weather has reverted to winter 🙂 Siddy is enjoying romping on the daffodil bank in his park every morning, even he stops to smell the flowers ………… Beautiful photos Gallivanta!
Siddy knows how to keep ( a) spring in his step! The daffodils were a freebie from a function which a friend attended. Daffodils are wonderful, free daffodils are even better. Keep warm.
Thank you for sharing your shades of spring. We are in autumn and the leaves are turning that marvelous color before winter comes to bring rest. I love seasons for they remind me that change is always with us…
Indeed, Clanmother. I would hate to be stuck in an eternal winter, or an eternal spring for that matter. What a struggle life would be in such circumstances!
Happy spring, Ann, from autumnal Shropshire 🙂
Thank you, Tish. For spring :” Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,” but what did Housman write about your Shropshire autumn?
Now that’s a leading question. I’m going to have to look now. Though on the other hand the whole tone of A Shropshire Lad is pretty autumnal – love and loss and death etc. He was rather a sad soul, I feel. But writing this I’ve just thought of a timely poem No. xxvii – Is my team ploughing. The ploughing season has just begun here – at least we saw the farmers at work in Derbshire where we’ve just spent a few days – flocks of seagulls following the tractors; soil looking like turned chocolate. V. atmospheric. I like autumn.
Is my team ploughing does seem very timely. I like it. I also like the image of soil looking like turned chocolate. Must be good rich soil. In Maori tradition, spring is the time of year for digging “Kōanga is the Māori word for spring (September to November). It includes the word ‘kō’, a digging implement: spring was the time for digging the soil.” http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/tawhirimatea-the-weather/page-2 Enjoy your autumn harvest. 🙂
You move into spring as we move into autumn, it’s hard to hold on to the thought of daffodils now, but we both have lots of wonderful colour to come.
Indeed we do. The blues are just starting to emerge. I think I prefer the blues to the pinks. 🙂
the sun is missing… the daffodils bring some beautiufl yellow in your house and you k=need to bring your own sunshine. The cherry blossom looks amazing almost like just snowy trees, so many blossoms, Super. Great video!
Ute, the blossom looked very snow-like; in other years they have seemed very pink particularly on a sunny day. And, yes, it’s great to have sunshine in the form of daffodils. 🙂
It’s autumn by us. Thank’s for sharing spring 🙂 Nice bouquet and video 🙂
Thank you, Christiane. Enjoy your autumn. I am sure you will be making lots of beautiful autumn bouquets.
Beautiful Daffodils and lovely Cherry Blossoms!!! 🙂
Thank you, Ashley.
You are welcome! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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So interesting to know about the overcast skies. I would not have imagined that…Are your fall seasons overcast too? What about summer? Curious people want to know! 😉 I dream of New Zealand as my fall back country…in case the US continues to spiral out of control. Beautiful daffodils!
Weather-wise, it would not be wise to have NZ as your fall back country. A lot of our weather is very wishy-washy, and very undecided. And it’s a lot colder than non-NZers expect it to be. We do have beautiful days here and there, all throughout the year. A while ago, some wit said the people who speak most highly of wonderful Christchurch are the ones who spend their summers in holiday homes at the top of the South Island and their winters in France or Italy. Of course that is an exaggeration but for those of us who are here, day in and day out, Christchurch weather is not always something to love.
Here in the US it is fall! It is lovely to see your daffodils, so spring like and beautiful! 🙂
xo
Thank you, Joanne. Fall is a splendid season. Every year I look at the Fall colours and wonder how they could possibly get any more beautiful, yet each Fall they seem to do just that.
Spring is often grey but with little pops of surprising colour. It is odd to think of you in spring with us heading into autumn. Still sunny and I seasonally warm but the trees are turning, cookers are all over the ground and the nights are drawing in.
The nights are drawing in! I love that expression. I haven’t heard it in so long. Glad you still have some warmth. Do children play with conkers anymore?
Not really…..health and safety!
Ah, yes, good ol’ health and safety. 😦 It rules our lives but in NZ there are still 1.6 million accident injury claims each year, many of which occur in our own homes and gardens.
Lovely pictures! It is late summer here and the skies are grey more often. Summer is leaving too soon 😦
Yes, I always feel sad saying goodbye to summer. I love the long hours of daylight.
It’s true, Spring is all about tenderness. In French there’s even a word for the green that happens at Springtime and it translates as tender green. As I write this, Autumn has finally started here in NY after a late summer, the sun is lower, hitting the autumn blooms just so.
That ‘just so’ is delightful. I have such wonderful memories of NY state autumn colours. Is the French word you refer to ‘vert tendre’ ? My mental image of spring is heavily influenced by British and European versions of spring ( think in particular Pissarro paintings), as are the spring plantings in Hagley Park. A native or pre-European New Zealand spring would be kowhai and kaka beak and clematis, for example. http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-plants/kowhai/ The native clematis which is flowering now is featured on my header.
I loved learning about the kowhai, thank you for the link! The flowers, at least the photos I saw, almost look like the bloom of a magnolia before they fully open.
Yes, the photo does give that impression but in reality you would find them quite unlike magnolia buds.
It’s awfully good to see you back here! Lovely photos and the video is SO soothing! The cherry trees are unbelievable.
Because I want my parents to enjoy the videos I try to make them as restful as possible, and to give them plenty of time to take in everything. To soothe is my aim! The cherry trees are Prunus x yedoensis ( Yoshino cherry ) which is the same cherry you find at the Washington DC Tidal Basin.
You brighten up those grey skies with your colorful flowers and your smile – who could ask for more. Have a wonderful day, Ann.
A wonderful day to you, too, GP. Hope to come by soon and catch up on some more of your posts.
I had no idea daffodils are poisonous. On the other hand, I’ve never been tempted to eat one. I ate candied violets once, and have eaten yucca flowers, but in my view, flowers belong in the ground or in a vase. “Bread for the body, flowers for the soul,” they say, and there’s nothing more cheerful than a bouquet like yours. They last longer than a salad, too.
The video’s lovely. The scenes remind me of spring in Mississippi for some reason. It may be the combination of trees and flowers. As for those gray days, they have their own appeal. And yesterday I came across the first ground fog of the fall — a sure sign of a changing season.
I have not been tempted to eat daffodils either, But some people, for whatever reason, do try to eat them. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11396076/Move-daffodils-to-stop-people-eating-them-shops-told.html In New Zealand, between 2003-2010, the national poison centre dealt with 84 daffodil incidents. I don’t have more recent statistics. Fog is lovely, if I am not lost in it or if it’s not holding up air traffic. 🙂
Gorgeous! Whatever spring is in NZ the brightly coloured daffodils will brighten anyone’s day… have a wonderful spring! 🙂
It certainly cheered the day to have vases of daffodils on the table.
Lovely arrangements and thanks for sharing the video too! 🙂
Happy to do so.
What a beautiful photo essay! Love how the grey becomes colour. And glad to read you don’t eat your daffies.
PS The grey is gorgeous too. Soft.
Thank you. The day I went to see the cherry blossoms I found a very grey and white scene, which made me wonder about daffodils in grey and white. Eating daffodils is a definite no no!
What a treat! An Ann post 🙂 🙂 How can they simply drive past that wondrous cherry blossom? I’d have to stop and luxuriate 🙂 Sending hugs, darlin.
When the weather is good, the cherry blossom walk and the park are full of people. On a grey day people are not so keen to stop and stare. 😀