Today I’m thinking we need to find joy in the small things around us. So here are some of my garden daffodils, still spritely despite onslaughts of wind and downpours.
It’s all too easy to be laid low by the news headlines. The mass media is having an field-day of fear-mongering and finger-pointing. They should be ashamed of themselves. Fear disempowers. It is highly contagious. It makes situations many times worse than need be. Vigilance and common sense are our best protection AND sources of straight forward information. The World Health Organization provides daily worldwide updates along with full details of Coronavirus as they are learned.
Spirits up, everyone!
Tish Farrell 
Oh your Daffs are so much prettier than mine. Deep color…mine are much softer color.
I have quite a mixture. I actually rather prefer the paler ones, but then I thought the 2-tone ones were more vibrant.
Your photo skills add to their beauty
Thank you 🙂
Thank you Tish! Spirits up indeed! Your daffodils made me very happy.
So happy about that, Aggie.
Daffodils are my favorite flower. So happy to see yours this morning. Mine won’t be popping up for several months yet. They’re late bloomers.
Glad to bring you early daffs, Susan.
I’ve had blooms outside my front window for weeks now. But the tiny ones in the back garden came up first. Pretty pictures. Shame my trip to Indonesia has been cancelled.
I’m amazed how well the daffs are lasting. A couple that came out at the end of Jan. are still going. Sorry your travel plans have been scotched. Was this to be a new assignment?
Medical officer for researchers looking at climate change and coral reefs, two groups of university students, both cancelled because of covid-19 risks
Hopefully only postponed?
Well maybe for 12 months
Might you end up being coopted to minister to patients here?
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Happy spring and my daffodils are in bloom, and give optimism that at least the landscape will cheer us.
Definitely lots of landscape cheer, Sally 🙂
And it makes people do daft things like stockpile loo rolls!!!
Indeed. Such a strange choice of item to hoard.
So very very true, my dear Tish: “Fear disempowers”. Thank you for the sunshine! 🙂
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SO BEAUTIFUL TISH!! NOTHING MAKES ME HAPPIER THAN SEEING DAFFODILS IN SPRING! HOPING THE RAINS OVER THERE HAVE SLOWED DOWN & YOU CAN WORK IN YOUR GARDEN SOON. 🙂
Hello, Mitch. Gardening should be happening next week. We’re supposed to be having sun and no rain! Hope you’re doing OK.
Always love this periode of the year because it means spring is very near…!! Looking forward to having breakfast outside in the garden…
Now that is a lovely thought, Herman. Breakfast in the garden. Cheers!
Yes! Spirits up. I have remained positive in my thoughts and outlook even though two people; tested positive to the virus in my country yesterday. We are all doing the washing of hands etc etc. 🙂
Stay well, Celestine!
Beautiful.
Thank you, Rabirius.
Great daffs, Tish… And you’re right, the media has a lot to answer for….
Thank you Tish. Flowers and words to bring cheer.
You and Tracy spurred me on.
Well said, Tish. Loved the daffs!
Cheers, Mike.
A little colour, a helpful link. Thank you, Tish.
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It was reading your post that made me think of it 🙂
Lovely, they always make me smile 🙂
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As news release after news release came out all day yesterday about our province and city starting to shut down, I certainly felt an alarming sense of doom.
You’re right that we need to embrace the small, gentle things that brighten our spirits. Daffodils definitely fit that category 😊
Cities shutting down does indeed feel v. alarming. It IS alarming: no longer life as we thought we knew it. But the upside is the Chinese have shown that this is a very effective method – depriving the virus of new hosts. Wishing you and yours all the very best.
Thanks – and to you and yours as well.
Thank you so much for the daffs 🙂 … I’ve just spent a good hour trying to compose comments to people who are most certainly scared underneath their bombast, that get the message, and accurate information, across without setting them off … when all I really want to do is … well, lets just say I’m a tad frustrated. 🙂 … so daffs are the best thing in the world to finish such an hour off with. 😀
Am more than happy to bring you daffs, Widders. Good on you for trying soothe people’s anxiety. It’s a tough call to dispel once it’s lodged in.
Thank you for the daffs. So pretty.
And I completely agree with your last paragraph!
Thank you, Alison. I am getting very cross the way (and this includes the BBC) has been framing stories of death and distress without proper explanatory contexts. They just add to people’s anxieties, though I think the intention is to probably to frighten us into social distancing.