| As I look out the window of our home office I see a | | | | book that I realized my mistake. The snow is a |
| mild blizzard. Hey, it's two weeks into spring. Where | | | | protection and insulates the delicate petals. Yes, they |
| are those beautiful warm days we've been waiting | | | | bend over with the heavy wet snow, but daffodils |
| for? The crocus and daffodils are making their first | | | | are a remarkable spring flower. They are very hardy |
| appearance. Soon the leaves will be popping open but | | | | and can tolerate freezing temperatures. |
| the days are still cold and the nights are freezing. | | | | I learned a valuable lesson that year. So now when a |
| This morning, as we came out of the gym, we had | | | | spring snow covers my full blooming daffodils I leave |
| to brush snow off of the car windows. We admired | | | | them alone and let nature take its course. This |
| the beauty of the daffodils as we drove in the yard. | | | | morning our daffodils were bent over a bit but they |
| They looked fine. I recalled a disappointing experience | | | | had survived the storm and will continue to bring their |
| while living in Denver, Colorado, when we had a | | | | wonderful brightness to our front yard. |
| heavy late snow fall. My heart sank when I looked at | | | | Sharing these spring flowers beautifies the |
| the daffodils. Surely they would be dead by morning, | | | | neighborhood and brings us great joy. We'll give each |
| so I decided to try and save them by brushing the | | | | of our granddaughters a bouquet when they visit us |
| snow off of the petals and to my disappointment in | | | | this weekend. Blossom by blossom spring arrives. I |
| the morning all my beautiful spring flowers were stiff | | | | love spring! |
| and frozen. It wasn't until I read in my gardening | | | | |