DAFFODILS

Spring is here in the Blue Ridge.  Down the mountain the trees are all in bloom with flowers but up here we are "late bloomers".  There is one thing here that I have never ever noticed anywhere else and that is daffodils growing wild.  My mom used to plant her daffodil bulbs every year for her Spring garden. I always thought you had to plant them, buy the bulbs in a store and plant them in the garden and wait.  Up here it is as if God took a paintbrush dipped it in yellow paint and dotted the countryside with daffodils.  They grow up the mountain, in cow pastures, along streams, along the roadside just about everywhere.  When I see them it means Spring is here but it doesn't mean the snow has stopped. Each Spring we have had snow after the daffodils bloom but at least they are there poking their yellow heads up saying.....you can't hold Spring back.