Oskar Zwintscher Portrait with Daffodils (1907)

This is how I look today: red nose, running like a faucet, teary eyes, head cold stuffing my brain. So we’ll keep it short and take joy from daffodils, signs of better times to come. I don’t even have it in me to pair them with my photographs of these yellow wonders. In German they are called Easterbells, but here they already sprout early February.

Just take in the brilliant color. Spring will emerge.

John Dobbs Daffodils 2023

Helen Firth Daffodils in Long Grass (late 20th C)

Lily Yorke Still Life of Daffodils in a Blue and White Vase (1890)

A. van Haddenham Daffodils and other flowers in a hamper (19th century)

Berthe Morisot Daffodils (1885)

Gustav Klimt The Dancer circa 1916–18 – Daffodils central among all the rest….

Mat Grogran Still Life with Daffodils

Wayne Thiebaud Daffodil (Etching)

Maria Sibylla Merian Daffodil, Scorpion grasses and Butterflies, ca 1657–1659

And just as a reminder, this very flower from the genus Narcissus was claimed to have sprung from the site of Narcissus’ death, after he glared too long into his watery mirror image, fell in and drowned.

Hoping for renewal after narcissists’ demise. May there be millions of these flowers around!

Claude Monet Landscape of Daffodils

Paul Rafferty Daffodils Grey Light

And here is Schumann on spring….