I do appreciate my small band of followers.

I so appreciate my small band of followers, and apologise for the lack of posts recently.
I had a very bad attack of gaestro problems........goodness knows why, but it made me feel like death.
Now I am ready to bounce back. The fact that we are now into the month of March does so much for me emotionally. I hate the bad weather and the cold winter months here in the UK, more so because of my progressing osteo arthritis.
However once March arrives, heralding the start of spring, and I see the snowdrops and shoots of daffodils in my garden, not to mention a small touch of sunshine, I can then feel a lift to my soul.
William Wordsworth a well known poet was born here in the Lake District and his glorious poem of daffodils always springs to mind around this time of year.

Daffodils by William Wordsworth (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.
As I haven't had a lot of time to stamp, I have used a photograph of some of the first daffodils of spring. Please enjoy both the poem and the photograph.......love to you all