Heart Art and Daffodils

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I was surprised to spot a whole heart and half a heart beside the road to the stop sign. There were dried weeds waving above this scene, and I guess that’s where the hearts dropped from.

Back home, I took a photo of my entire crop of daffodils and a close-up for people who can’t see very well.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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52 thoughts on “Heart Art and Daffodils”

  1. I can’t believe you have full grown flowers like that. So beautiful against the grey background. Are you now calling that a hart-y walk for the morning? Or at least good for the heart? Nature is awesome.

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  5. Lovely daffodils. It’s quite pretty thought.what a love heart and half heart found on nature walks.
    Beautiful capture the picture. I like.

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  12. Finally snowed here. Of course it had to wait until the last day of February just when we had thought we had escaped winter. Hah! No daffodils here for sure.

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  14. Thanks for sharing your daffodils. It will be a while before ours bloom. Yours will probably be done by then so I’ll send some back your way. 🙂

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          1. Yes, that didn’t make sense to me at all. They lied about this morning – we did not get wintry precip with more ice as it was too warm, but when I ran out to run the car, the icy glaze was still there. It only affected me, not the mailman, though I’ve told him before if it is icy after I shovel or suddenly, to deliver it the next day. No mail I get is THAT important.

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              1. I’ve often wondered if I should just go to the Post Office and tell them it is okay for the carrier to skip me in bad weather – maybe he’s afraid of losing his job. I get about 1% legitimate mail and often mail for my father, though he’s been gone from here since 1993.

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                  1. You think they would point to a sign that is probably hanging in the post office that is their motto: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

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  17. Hi Anne – can you access this link? A friend on Facebook who reads my blog because I send her each post asked to see my garden. I made a link. In the bottom right-hand side if you click the orange “i” it tells the name … I thought you might like to see the pics. This is how it looked in 2010 – it sure does not look like that now. Sigh.
    https://link.shutterfly.com/ysFuqWYnpyb

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      1. Oh that’s great Anne – I hoped it worked out so you could see the slideshow and the link didn’t fail. A lot of effort went into that garden – my mom used to say “don’t put that much work into it – no one else sees it but Marge and me.” But I was stubborn. It will take a lot to get it back to that glory again. I would like it to look like that again. My neighbor put a white fence up on the side that the roses are on, so that doesn’t give them as much sun for one thing.

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          1. Well I do, but it is hard to look at the entire yard and after the shed blew over after a 39 mph windstorm back around 2015, it left a gaping hole at the back gardens – the shed was in the middle with gardens on either side. Now that the shed blew over it exposed two trees at the fenceline which have grown more. I thought I’d keep them, but when we had the fire back on December 2nd, DTE (our energy provider) came and hacked up the trees to keep them away from the power lines. I guess I need to call a tree cutter to have them removed. The trees were leafy and the grass started getting sparse, now it is mud.

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              1. It looks bad out there – if I took a photo you would not recognize it as the same backyard. After they installed the generator which takes up a big portion of the yard (it’s a small yard), the tech said “see all those roses on that side – they are going to die because if the generator runs a long time, it pushes out hot air constantly – they will die.” Well thanks for telling me that.

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                  1. I agree – I will have to transplant it – it had started out as a memorial garden for my mom and Sugar (my canary) – they both passed away in 2010. I got the climbing rose which I ordered three bare root roses from Jackson and Perkins – the rose name was “Stairway to Heaven” and it had black spot so bad that I eventually ripped it out and threw the umbrella trellis away before it contaminated the other roses. I have a hydrangea planted near there – it survived for some reason. There has been noise behind my house all day, evn in the rain and wind. They took the debris from the garage that burned down in December, but last week they broke up the concrete floor – I assume they are building another garage … that may help things look better, although I had a redwood fence in that corner – the shed that blew over was in the middle. The redwood fence burned too in the fire. I did not contact my insurance company – I figured whomever I get to take out the tree and bushes will probably be the same as my deductible. I have to have the trees they hacked up removed too.

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                    2. The other day I flushed the toilet and it wouldn’t shut off. Luckily I remembered my mother taking the tank top off and lifting the stick with the chain/flapper and fixing it by doing it – thankfully that worked. Our high winds are worrisome – I wish that neighbor would cut the dead tree down.

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                    3. We were supposed to have high winds in the night. Shawn said we did, but both of us slept through the storm. This afternoon while we were porch sitting, the wind began to howl and roar. It isn’t as frightening in daylight.

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                    4. No, I’d prefer it in daylight – it was supposed to be over at 6:00 p.m., now at midnight. I just looked and it is 29 mph winds – I know it is higher than that. I can feel the wind buffeting the house. I won’t complain unless the tree loses branches and causes issues, after seeing the destruction in Mississippi.

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