Take a Look Around You
March 4th, 2010 | Posted in Miscellaneous by Anne Brewer
St. Mary's in Sewanee, Tn. -April 6, 2008
Despite the fact my garden looks like a bomb exploded in it, signs of spring are emerging. Look around- the saucer magnolia, red bud, and Chickasaw plum trees are blooming. My daffodils are about to pop open in Pensacola, while up in the Alabama country the snow drops are in full bloom and the daffodils are in tight bud form. God is always pointing the way to new life and resurrection- just look around. How are you finding renewal this year?
“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).
The Daffodil Field in Boligee, Al.
A view from below the snow drop- Boligee, Al.
field of snow drops in Alabama
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Anne,
Great pictures of the Alabama awakening! With weather colder in Alabama than here on the coast, how many weeks do you think we’re behind ?
Keep the daffodil field progression !
Anne,
I have this same variety of snowdrops growing on my property in Alabama. I have been here for over thirty years, and they have always bloomed, but this year they were quite late. Do you know the name of this particular snowdrop? Lovely blog!
Kind regards,
Marnie
Thank you, Marnie! As on your property, our snow drops and daffodils have been there for at least fifty years. My grandmother always called ours snow drops, however, after doing some research, she may stand to be corrected. They may actually be Summer Snowflakes, or Leucojum aestivum. According to horticulturist, Felder Rushing, from Mississippi, snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) grow in the upper South and they usually have just one flower per stalk. The summer snowflakes have two or three flowers and they bloom in the spring, despite the name.
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Anne