The color yellow.  It can't be made from any other colors, it is known as a "primary color" one with which we can create other colors but nothing can create it.  The sheer number of shades and the number of shapes that abound have taken the breathe away from this city girl and she is so enjoying country life.




The heads of the daffodils are hanging low and it seems early spring has passed us by.

but nature has given us yet another burst of yellow.  This time a beautiful mixture of dandelions, mustard, buttercups,gorse and a number of flowers that I don't know the names of.  I don't which I have enjoyed more, what man has planted or what God did!

A Weed is a flower in the wrong place by Ian Emberson

A weed is a flower in the wrong place,

a flower is a weed in the right place,

if you were a weed in the right place

you would be a flower;

but seeing as you’re a weed in the wrong place

you’re only a weed –

its high time someone pulled you out.

Poor Robb gets yelled at to pull over or turn around all the time so that I can take photo's as we drive down the road.  Not always an easy thing for him to do, fortunately he is enjoying the flowers as well.                

I am not sure if they are growing the mustard as a crop to harvest or as a soil additive and are going to turn it under.  But we've all heard about "English Mustard" and just maybe it doesn't come from England after all!

This is one of my favorite quotes, by one of my favorite authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and though he is talking about a rose (also my favorite) I think it stands for all flowers.

"Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

Love to all,
Dawn