Today is a good day.

[watervole]

As I was walking back from the gym, I concluded that today is a good day.

Firstly, because I've recovered enough from the lurgi to actually be able to do 20 mins swimming. (and although it's been a couple of weeks since my last swim, I notice that my breath control is improving on strokes like front crawl)

Secondly, and most important, there are daffodils. Bright, bouncy, breezy daffodils in all their glory. I do not believe that there is any flower that conveys a more simple joy than the daffodil. There are prettier flowers, more gorgously coloured flowers, there are flowers that bring quiet delight when found hiding on a grassy bank, but there are none that trumpet spring more loudly, none that bounce in a breeze with such brassy confidence, none that look more vivid on a spring morning.

As long as there are daffodils in the world, I have hope for the future.

Comments

[temeres.livejournal.com]

I hate daffodils. Big gaudy noddy things. Probably Wordsworth's fault, with all his wandering lonely as a cloud nonsense. What is that supposed to mean? Clouds aren't lonely, they're bleedin' gregarious. Things might be different in Wordsworth Daffodil Land but down here they hunt in packs.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

The trouble with daffodils is that the Cumbrian councils think it's their duty to plant several thousand of them on the outskirts of every town. And they plant the wrong daffodils - enormous specimens - when the Wordsworths would have been looking at the little bright wild ones. I have some of those in my garden, and I like them, but in the Lakes you get pretty fed up with daffodils at this time of year.

Gregariousness of clouds: they vary, don't they?

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Article in today's Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1599691.ece) pointing out that Wordsworth spelled out his preference for celandine. In which case he was a man of taste, though the poem's not his best.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oooh, now me I love daffies, any and all varieties.

We're moving into Autumn, and the only thing flowering at the minute seems to be crepe myrtle. Fortunately, there's a lot of crepe myrtle in the older parts of town :)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Last year I saw fields of daffodils in England for the first time in my life! It was also in March and we were travelling from Heathrow to Plymouth for a seminar. It was so beautiful! I do have daffodils in my garden but this was a yellow sea together with green grass around - beauty!
Good to hear you are all right again!

[gaspodia.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you're on the mend! There's nothing like signs of Spring to cheer me up; I've been watching the trees excitedly waiting for the first signs of blossoms as this always gives me a nice mental boost.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you were feeling so much better by yesterday - and I hope you're better again today.

Oooh, daffodils! I have some in the garden just coming up, but not open yet. In the meantime, I've been enjoying so much tree blossom around the place (my pear trees are almost there, too).

I was given a Japanese spring-themed (cherry blossom) gift last week. I love the importance that they give to the seasons.

[merrymaia.livejournal.com]

Bright, bouncy, breezy daffodils in all their glory. I do not believe that there is any flower that conveys a more simple joy than the daffodil.

Yes!

but there are none that trumpet spring more loudly, none that bounce in a breeze with such brassy confidence, none that look more vivid on a spring morning.

Yes!

As long as there are daffodils in the world, I have hope for the future.

Yes.