Another kind of dove and daffodils photo. This image was taken on April 4, 2008.
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We love this note cube, and not just because we designed it!
Now we can have daffodils and Wordsworth on our desk all year. It's almost as good as being in the garden. Click to learn more.
About this blog
We all feel an elemental thrill each year as the first daffodils show up in our neighborhoods and gardens. We'll try to communicate that joy here.
We hope you'll visit our reference site, daffodilfestivals.com, for the latest listings about daffodil events in the U.S. and Canada.
Thanks for visiting!
We hope you'll visit our reference site, daffodilfestivals.com, for the latest listings about daffodil events in the U.S. and Canada.
Thanks for visiting!
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- Daffodils in Yaletown, Vancouver
- Daffodil and Butterfly in Waverly, Ohio
- Pretty Daffodils in Aberdeen, Scotland
- Snowy Daffodils in Burnaby Mountain Park, BC
- Back to the Daffodil Future -- er Past
- They Look Pretty in White in Dublin, Ireland
- Must-watch Daffodils at The New York Botanical Garden
- First Line of Daffodils in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- First Daffodils at Chicago Botanic Garden
- First Ladybug in Skagit Valley, Washington
- Fountain Daffodils on Mainau Island, Germany
- Blaise Daffodils in Bristol UK
- Afternoon reflections in Gig Harbor, Washington
- First Reflections in Essex, England
- Daffodils on Loch Carron, Scotland
- New Daffodils in Lisse, The Netherlands
- Things Go Better With Daffodils in Purchase, New York
- First Daffodils in North Yorkshire, UK
- First Daffodils in Charlestown, Rhode Island
- More Skagit Daffodils
- First Daffodils in Bolingbrook, Illinois
- Oh Noooooooo! in Northern New Mexico
- First Daffodils in East Lansing, Michigan
- First Daffodils in Woodburn, Oregon
- We could have danced all night in Washington, D.C.
- Daffodil Festival Resource Website
- First Daffodils at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens
- Big Daffodils at NC State University
- Great Blue Heron & Daffodils in British Columbia
- Daffodils and Bluebells in York, UK
- Daffodils and Tulips in West Milford, New Jersey
- First Daffodils in Bath, UK
- Skagit Reflections
- First Yellows in Gloucestershire, England
- First Daffodils at Barnard College
- First Daffodil Parade in 1934 (Washington)
- First Daffodils in Erie, Pennsylvania
- First Daffodils in Amity, Oregon
- First Daffodils in Ballylaneen, Ireland
- First Daffodils in Roscommon, Ireland
- First Daffodils in Green Bay, Wisconsin
- First Daffodils along the River Till, Northumberan...
- First Daffodils at Cambridge University, UK
- First Avalanche in Kent, UK
- Skagit has it all
- First Daffodils at Columbia University, Morningsid...
- Snow Surprise or is it?
- Teenage Daffodils in Northern Ireland
- First Daffodils in Annapolis, Maryland
- Hungarian Spring! First Daffodils in Funfkirchen
- Snowy daffodils in Kew Gardens, London
- First Daffodils in Vancouver
- River Dove and Daffodils, Farndale, UK
- More Skagit Daffodils, Mt. Vernon, Washington
- Dramatic daffodils in the Skagit flats
- First Ducks in Aberarth, Wales
- First Floods in Arkansas
- First Daffodils in Yorkshire, UK
- First Daffodils in Collessie
- First Daffodils in Washington, D.C.
- First Daffodils in Springfield, Missouri
- Cool Pattern and Treatment for Alzheimer's
- Snowy Daffodils in Sheffield, UK
- Daffodils at Penshurst Place
- Sneaking in a 2007 Image, Washington, D.C.
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14 comments:
Beautiful, how these daffodils grow along the water.
Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a message. I appreciate it.
Have a wonderful Sunday (searching daffodils?),
Eva
Well, I'm traveling for a few days, so searching as I can - and I am finding daffodils wherever I go in the D.C. area but my photography "cannot hold a daffodil" to the images I find on this flickr tag. Also, on one hour of sleep, I'm seeing multiples of images. It will be a miracle if I type this comment withour errrs. Cheers!
Yep. I did make an error! lol
Thank you for your gorgeous photo of those daffodils along that stream. I live in Farragut, Tennessee, USA and was looking up Aberdeen due to my knowing a poet there, Raymond Sutherland. His new book, "Life's Tapestry" has a lovely poem on daffodils in it. I have not yet visited Scotland but love it anyway. I know it will blow me away when we get to travel there.
Sharon Slaton Howell
(Pardon me if I type out for you a poem I wrote on this loveliest of all flowers, when we lived in New England.)
Daffodils
April, with its yellow, green and cold
Brings to this England new
Beauty such as Wordsworth saw: O delight!
Daffodils gracing field and pasture,
Daffodils adorning stone walls old.
Gifts of nature fade from mortal view.
But they, like scenes immortal poets
Paint for all eternity,
To mental sight lovely linger,
All year through.
A lovely poem Sharon Howell wrote. This is one talented conveyor of what she sees!
A P.S. to the poem I posted, "Daffodils":
It is from my first published book of poetry, "For love of Christ", Tennessee Valley Publishing, Knoxville, TN...2006
To: Daffodil lover
From: Sharon Slaton Howell:
A dear friend, Raymond Sutherland, who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, is also a lover of daffodils and has a poem dedicated to same in his new book just out, "Life's Tapestry". See what you think about putting it on your site:
"The Daffodils"
Raymond Sutherland
Facing every which-a-way
By runnels, rills, or swathed on open ground
In some strange ordered disarray
Green garbed golden trumpeters abound
Amidst such noble company as this
To speak would prove how brutish I could be
And break the sweet communion that exists
Between my radiant golden friends and me
Mere words are such laborious, ponderous things
That scarcely can my stammering tongue define
The beauty that is spread around my feet
Love, manifest in colour and in line
So silently and gently I'll begin
That in my life some beauty may adorn
And join them in their wordless eloquence
A silent sennet, prelude to the morn.
First published by Author House
8/l8/08
available from: www.raymondsutherland.com
Thanks for sending this sweet tribute along. I love the image/phrase of "radiant golden friends".
Raymond Sutherland's poem is very well done. I can just see the scene now. Thanks for putting this on your website for daffodil lovers like me to enjoy!
Really love your website! And enjoyed the two poems you've posted, the one by Sharon Howell and the other one by Raymond Sutherland.
Keep up your inspired work on behalf of a flower we can't get enough of!
Love Raymond Sutherland's ode to daffodils. A wonderful poem, in my view, and I'm so glad I happened on to it.
Thanks to you for posting it...
This is truly a wonderful site for daffodil lovers. Thank you for printing my earlier poem 'Daffodils.' I have tentatively submitted this one which is on something of the same lines...I'm simply hoping that it brings to mind for the reader, a coloured memory (yellow of course) to brighten up the day when the sun is behind a cloud.
Raymond Sutherland.
GOLDEN TRUMPETERS ©
They didn't move at all when I walked by
Involuntary...I was forced to pause
They paid no heed but did what they do best
Trumpet paeans of vibrant praise to God
My golden friends gave no regard to me
I wondered where they'd been for quite so long
But then it dawned...that they had been 'below'
Arranging something new...a Springtime song
I still don't know just how the thing was done
So slim...dressed in tight fitting coats of green
A cacophony of silence rent the air
Unexpected...totally unforeseen
Some crocuses...then idly standing by
Decided without bidding to join in
This voiceless vocal bunch burst into praise
A blooming...coloured chorus...oh! the din!
If you'd been there with me the strange thing is
I doubt that you'd have heard this praise profound
Transmitted on the wavelength of the eye
More beautiful by far than that of sound
If only I could be more like my friends
Learning how to love and simply be
That even though I never say a word
Christ's radiance would emanate from me
If you wish, please take a look at our new blog, an updated (improved design) version of this blog: www.daffodilfestivals.com/firstdaffodils
Thanks for the nice comments about our blog!
Well, Raymond Sutherland! Just happened to stop by this wonderful blog dedicated to us who are daffy about daffodils and found another offering from your inspired pen. I love this one. What a blessing it no doubt has been to readers, and will continue to be for those fortunate enough to read it.
Thanks for posting...have a glorious autumn there in Scotland.
Sharon Slaton Howell
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