It's that time of your again. The time of year when Daffodils bloom, at least in Sainsburys and Tesco's, where they push through the earth in many council parks, where yellow tips appear slowly there, and I spend a pound or two I canny afford just to brighten up this dismal corner. It is money well spent.
OK, so they only last a week or two, but just to have these bright fresh flowers offering a sniff of nature so close is always worth the money.
There is not much else to do nature wise. The sun is shining through the cold air today, blue sky above pretending Spring has sprung early, but we are not fooled by this. However, after long weeks of almost unbroken cloud it is marvellous to be almost alive again.
The clever people are claiming we might be able to see a planetary alignment tonight. This means up to seven planets might be seen somewhere in the night sky. This alignment will not appear again until 2040, and we might be dead by then if Putin has his way.
However, can I see it? I expect not. It appears to be seen in the southern sky area, I look west by hanging out the kitchen window, and it might not appear until early dawn. This is typical. However, after the end of the Partick Thistle v Livingston game, if still awake, I might take a peek out the window and search for anything like I have seen in past times.
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So, did you see any of the planets? We had a bit too much light to see many but we think we saw the two brightest. I love daffodils! We have them too although they are not native. People think they are because you can find them growing in the woods but that is because a long ago settler planted them next to their house. The house is long gone but the bulbs remain and return year after year. The deer won't eat them, I think that's one reason those who planted the bulbs must have passed that info along to others!
Kay, Sadly I could not see any planets whatever. I look the wrong way. Great story re the Daffs, lovely flower.
Three of us were driving in the countryside and saw the planets but though they were weird planes in the sky stacked over Heathrow. Or something.(Heathrow was nowhere near). Had quite forgotten about the planet alignment. So, like Douglas Adams says, we dismissed the whole thing as "somebody else's problem." But then got a phone call from our granddaughter who was thrilled about it, and that actually made me feel thrilled too because we had seen such a thing! Tush! human nature!
Jenny, I think it would be great to see such a sight. It does not happen often.
I used to order daffs and narcissi in bud for mother from a flower farm in the Scillies. They were not expensive, postage was reliable and she said that they lasted for ages.
As to planets, all I could see was the lights from planes coming into the airport in the valley below.
Fly, Flower farms are good.
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