Impulse Buy: Daffodils

{daffodils and twine}

{entryway daffodils}

{kitchen window}

I confess: I violated the rules of the financial fast and impulsively bought these daffodils after work today. In my defense: They were 3 big bunches for $5, I paid cash, and they light up our home and brighten the mid-week mood. 

Happy March.

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 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 stretched 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. 

"Daffodils" by William Wordsworth