E-man,
Down in Georgia they get daffodils in February, though they don't bloom for long. There is a glorious spring that lasts until June there. The dogwoods and azaleas are magnificent, not to mention the wisteria cascading from trees and fences everywhere.
Here in Michigan we won't get spring until well into April, even May. But your thread brought to mind one of my favorite poems:
Daffodils" (1804)
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.
- By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
Does that get you in the mood for spring?
Heather