Sunshiney Daffodils

"The Earth smiles in flowers"

  If you live anywhere near my little hometown of Walnut, Mississippi, you are definitely loving the weather right now. When there are reports of record amounts of snowfall in other parts of the country, I feel very sorry for the people suffering through several feet of snow and ice.
  Having said that, I am almost guilty about enjoying our springlike weather. The sunshine, the moderate temperatures, and the flowers! The daffodils have gotten a head start this year. They are really bursting on the scene with all their sunshiney color. I am jealous of my neighbors whose daffodils have started blooming in clusters around their yard. Mine never bloom first, although I do have one small flower in the backyard (where nobody can see it and I had even overlooked the poor thing.)
  I passed an old abandoned property Monday afternoon, on the way to my physical therapist's appointment, that had so many daffodils that I felt overcome with the need to stop and take pictures. I am a dedicated amateur photographer, whose main subject is natural scenery. The people at my physical therapist's must have thought I was just plain crazy when I came in there Monday with a daffodil. I gave it to the receptionist and had her smell it because it was so sweet. Most daffodils, in my opinion, have a slightly unpleasant smell. However, I find some, mostly the smaller versions, that smell so good, you would want to eat them. (Well, maybe not literally.)
  Yesterday, on the way home from an appointment in Memphis, my husband, Alan and I did something that is our regular hobby when we have the time. We wander around the back roads, looking for what interests us. With him, it is travel trailers, vintage campers, old cars and trucks. With me it is anything that would make a good picture. I got a few pictures of some thrift that was growing in the big old city of Walnut near the post office and he saw several campers but nothing outstanding.
   I did see an old house that had clusters of daffodils growing around it. Now, I have my favorite vase sitting next to the couch with a handful of daffodils, where I can easily see it,bringing me a little sunshine inside.
  Where ever you live, I hope you are having a good day with lots of sunshine...and flowers. Even if they are the artificial kind and the only sunshine comes from the people around you...that counts, too.

Thrift at home near Walnut Post Office