This winter, like the last one has been colder, clearer, and our precipitation has come frozen rather than melted. Every time I think the thaw has finally come and the rains have returned it turns colder and I wake up to snow on the ground. Hope Springs Eternal however. Over the weekend it snowed, …again. This time though I noted this irrefutable sign of Spring, one of our daffodils popping through the snow cover.
When we lived in the UK our house was in the midst of a large dairy farm and when we first saw it from the car of our letting agent it, the farm, and the long drive from the road were awash in daffodils. The following Spring the bloom happened again, not long before we left the UK as Spring turned to Summer. When we found this home in the Cascade foothills the boys and I planted daffodils all over the property, lining the driveways in the hope that it would cheer Sue up. So now ever year they return in early Spring, providing a reminder of our time in Wiltshire… (and drive me crazy as I mow around them once the grass starts growing in earnest come April & May!)
No blooms yet, but hope springs eternal.