Thursday, April 3, 2014

The woods on the western edge of Ramsay have several patches of beautiful daffodils blooming.  This morning I saw this bunch on my walk through the area with our dogs, and it made me think of the line about the "crowd of daffodils" from the Wordsworth poem, which follows the picture.

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: –
A poet could not but be gay
In such a laughing company:
I gaz'd – and gaz'd – but little thought
What wealth the shew 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.

William Wordsworth Poems in Two Volumes: Moods of my Mind 7 (1807)

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Aside from enjoying flowers and green grass--Central Virginia Builders were busy all day on the south portico, and David, the roofing specialist, was here to work on the roof of the portico.  Susan and Stephen assembled the new movable chicken coop, pictures to follow tomorrow!