happiness on a stick

writer anne lamott likes to joke about the giant yellow schnozes of daffodils. how can we not smile, she asks, when we look at the daffodils with their ridiculous giant schnozes?  i agree. daffodils make me smile. the snow is long gone, but the leaves have not yet leafed out. the land is still the duff color of fallen leaves. and yet here and there, these enormous yellow schnozes are reminding us that the sun is getting brighter every day and an explosion of color is near.

daffodils (Narcissus)