daffodils
kerry audrey gave them to me as a very belated birthday this morning in a bag when i was standing by the piano.

also in the bag:

13 sticks of marshmellow-scented incense

a little clay incense stand with a star in it

a little mini juicebox of Soy Dream soymilk

a mini box of milkduds

a bag of crushed peppermint leaves

a box filled with lavendar

a wine cork

a very pretty and simple homemade card that says:
"felicem tibi natalem diem! Dearest kiwi, happy happy birthday! wow, you're so grown up now... (tears)... and so mature too... hehe, happy 16th! can't wait till we get to drive whenever and wherever we want. we'll have to drag race sometime. love, audrey"

walking with james after school i held the daffodils in my hand and after everybody started grinning and smiling cutely at us i realized they probably thought the flowers were from him. but thats ok. 		030313
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frAnk first to break the thawed soil of robin hill, several hundred are now budding, soon to blow their trumpets announcing the long-awaited arrival of spring. 030323
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kerry now dried and shrivelled, they fell out of their ribbon today and i found them on the floor. 030323
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crOwl put on their show this year. our jaws drop. walking with wordsworth. 040425
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nom they keep spreading

last year there were half as many



was walking around smelling them today. 		040425
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unhinged daffodils smell nice

i didn't realize that until recently 		040426
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unhinged make someone smile
you never know when that will be
what makes them decide to getup tomorrow 		040428
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blather guild of appreciation for red's daffodil lovers. 060105
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nom there are daffodils 060422
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tilt there are indeed. many many dafs. and daisies, and small blue flowers and dandelions.
i saw bats last night. 		060422
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nom and crocuses
and azaleas
and and
soon:
cherry blossoms 		070306
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Q Daffodils

by William Wordsworth

I wander'd 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 stretch'd 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 waves in glee;
A poet could not but be 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. 		090623
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o n m have been in bloom in vancouver for weeks now

i am sick in bed it is sunny out can't wait to be well 		100225
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no reason i am sick but have way too much work to do to be in bed and it is very not warm here
this has nothing to do with daffodils but i wish it did 		100225
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cr0wl perhaps a clutch of daffodils would cheer you up. 100225
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margaux i just noticed them blooming around here a couple days ago - maybe yesterday. 100226
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unhinged are you guys serious? you have daffodils already?


i'm lucky to see any flowers by april around here. *sigh* i haven't been doing my winter flower therapy either.


last week my favorite grocery store to buy flowers had some cut stems of orchid (the typical purple and white variety) and a still closed bird of paradise and i almost did it. i almost bought myself some tropical flowers to dispel the gloom. my big vase stuffed with tulips and daffodils also sounds delightful.


this is the last spring that all the beautiful bulbs will bloom. they have already listed the house, open house this sunday. i hope whoever buys it lets the tulips and daffodils stay. her photos of them have been brightening my kitchen through two winters now. i will miss that house. especially in the spring and summer with my mother's particular knack for picking and planting just the right flowers. 		100226
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o n m yes cherry/plum blossoms starting too,
since like a week a least before the olympics began,
definitely an early spring 		100226
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o n m still nippy at times 100226
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unhinged does an early spring mean a hot summer? 100226
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flowerock nature's tea cups on a plate. 140214
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epitome of incomprehensibility I like that poem, even if the last two lines sound a little silly. I had to memorize it for class when I was seventeen, and from time to time I use it as a tiredness test - if I can't remember all of it, I'm probably too tired. (Although there was one time last year I hadn't had proper sleep for four nights, and I tried to nap but instead Nicki Minaj raps repeated themselves in my mind with startling, almost hallucinatory, accuracy.)

Oh yes, and I like daffodils. They remind me of clothes, somehow. 		140512
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