Ok folks, here I am again in the old blue chair, gazing out the big window and daydreaming.
Ok folks, here I am again in the old blue chair, gazing out the big window and daydreaming.
Looking across at those bare trees, here in the winter and trying to envision again those beautiful green leaves, emerging and blowing in the wind. Seems as if spring comes on suddenly. And, I am determined to be alert and wide-eyed and not miss a thing as it happens.
However, only yesterday on my daily walk there were Jonquils and Daffodils, six inches high!
I walk, almost daily, by that flower bed on the west end of the building where I live here at the retirement village. I stop and stare and ask myself, when did that happen?
I have been asked what the difference in a Jonquil and a Daffodil is.
So, I put on my thinking cap as I was not altogether sure.
Did a bit of checking.
Jonquils have clusters of small fragrant flowers and cylindrical leaves. Those leaves remind me of a slender drinking straw.
Yet, a daffodil has a flat leaf and single flowers, not clusters.
And, I learned this: They are both of the Amaryllis family. Who knew?
I have an Amaryllis there by the big window. It is very close to bursting into bloom and strutting her stuff. Just enough is peeping out to let me know it will be bright red.
I have watched as it took on life from that big bulb, tucked into that pot of dirt, days ago.
So, today I say, hurry along Madam Spring! Put on your frock of morning mist and bring an arm full of yellow Forsythia and maybe a big Tulip for your hair.
Please don’t get distracted as you have often times and tarry for days on end. We are impatiently waiting for your arrival. We want to sing the Song of Solomon.
The winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers are springing up and the time of the singing of birds has come. Yes, Spring is here.
Did you hear about Miz Brown goin’ off to visit her daughter?
She asked her neighbor, Mr. Smith, to watch her house while she was away.
Well, she came back and he had washed her house from top to bottom.
He had borrowed every ladder he could get hold of.
Come to find out he thought she had said, wash my house.
She said, “No, I did not say wash my house, I plainly said watch my house.”
Whoop Dee Doo!