daffodils | coppsky

The prompt for today is “daffodils”

Okay, lots of photos of daffodils…pretty but…

I like the species name “jonquil”. It includes flowers that are a variety of yellows and whites, apricots and creams..

All jonquils are daffodils (genus Narcissus), but not all daffodils are jonquils. So there. I like the way the name jonquil rolls off the tongue better than daffodil anyway.

Here are some daffodils being restrained, or perhaps we are being restrained from getting too close to them?

Well now here’s a strange use of a daffodil…

What’s all this about? Remember Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? Ariel when they are about to be freed sings this song:

“Where the bee sucks, there suck I:

In a cowslip’s bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat’s back I do fly…”

I love the character of Ariel, so here am I, like Ariel in a cowslip’s bell I lie…Only I cheated – by “in a cowslip’s bell” Shakespeare was referring to a primrose where Britons at the time thought faeries slept and not in daffodils but I didn’t have any photos of primroses so I thought a daffodil would do just as well…maybe even better, for the purposes of my collage.