Monday, January 30, 2012

Where could i go for a walk today in yorkshire to see lots of daffodils?

I seem to remember that there are a lot on the Fountains Abbey / Studley Royal estate near Ripon run by the National Trust.



Its a beautiful place, with or without daffs.



******** How did that walk go today Rufus ? *************

Where could i go for a walk today in yorkshire to see lots of daffodils?
Public parks would be the best place.
Reply:Anyone going for a walk anywhere in Yorkshire today is asking for trouble, the weather is wild, windy, snowy and sunny...extremely changeable and I have just come home from the sailing club (not on the water) where the wind chill factor was up to minus 18
Reply:"Daffodils" (1804)



I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,



A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine





And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretch'd in never-ending line



Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they





Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,



In such a jocund company:

I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie





In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye



Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.



By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).


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