Spring is on its way

Excitement! Randy is clearing out the flower beds so the daisies and buttercups can peek out without all the oak leaves getting in the way. I actually found a few buttercups hiding beneath the blanket of leaves and clumps of daisies are already above the height of their winter cover. Once the beds are clear of debris, I'll think about separating the daisies, or maybe I'll leave them as they are. Last year I had so many we mowed them down. This year, hopefully we'll get enough back to separate and fill the bed. There's something so beautiful about the arrival of new plants above ground from the old underground. I try very hard to nourish those and not replace them with new. I remember visiting an old (100 years or more) homesite on the back of our 200 acres with my father and finding daffodils blooming. They were breathtaking - the very idea of blossoms occurring on plants that old!!!! It's fun too, to imagine how daffodils ended up in ditches and along roadsides and wonder who discarded them and when? At my old homesite just up the road, there is a row of daffodils running through the middle of the lawn. Must have been a fence there at some time. As a matter of fact, I remember! They would have edged Mother's vegetable garden! Not sure whether inside or outside the fence, but I think outside. I'm talking about the the 1940's now. Ah memories!