Day 96 – Bashed about
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.” ~ Alain de Botton This poor Daffy had certainly been bashed about a […]
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6
Apr
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3
Apr
Day 93 – Bloom
“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster This pretty little bloom is one of many that decorates the hedgerow between my front garden and my neighbours. Every spring […]
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29
Mar
Day 88 – Fair Gold
“I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It’s a daffodil!” ~ Celia Thaxter
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24
Mar
Day 83 – Bunch o’ daffs
“When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year” ~ William Shakespeare This is a bunch of daffodils that were in that ‘not […]
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22
Mar
Day 81 – Spring Joy
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ~ Iris Murdoch
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21
Mar
Day 80 – Rosemary
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“I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one’s hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; […]
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20
Mar
Day 79 – Yellow head
“She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.” ~ A.A. Milne Finally winter is dead. Every now and then you can still find it lurking […]
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15
Mar
Day 74 – Coming of Spring
“Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.” ~John Burroughs
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6
Mar
Day 65 – Spring Again
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke And they are good poems full of light and colour and hope. Sometimes you have to […]
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3
Mar
Day 62 – Little Yellow
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda And thank goodness for that because Spring is my second favourite season after summer which I love the best. […]
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