Well it's that time of year again. Spring has sprung and the crazy wild daffodils are out again in full bloom. They come out every February and March in Northern France to mark the begining of spring.
They've been out for close to a month now. I started seeing them around the begining of February and have been taking photos of them every few days on our walks with the dog.
They tend to look better on sunny days though, when the sunlight hits the yellow flowers and really makes them shine.
I had this silly idea that I was going to lay down in them and take a picture, sort of a re-enactment of the scene in the movie American Beauty with the girl and the rose petals.
But then I remembered that it's also tick season so it's probably not a very good idea to roll around in the dead leaves of the forest.
You'll have to just use your imagination and and picture me laying in a bed of wild daffodils.
On a completely different note, today I found out that we have a pig living in our back yard. A wild boar actually.
I must have startled him while I was filling up our bird feeder this morning because he ran out of a thorny brambles bush on our property. He headed into the forest that backs onto our lot.
He (or she) was brown and hairy and about the size of a mid-size dog.
I had seen signs of it for weeks now. It has completely torn up the grass searching for food on the second tier of our lot. I originally thought it looked like boar signs but figured it was just a skunk digging for grubs. I didn't think a boar would come on our property with our dog here but I was wrong of course.
Between this boar and the moles on the property our backyard lawn it turning out be more of a dirt pit. Pretty soon we aren't going to have any grass left.
I've heard boar in the ravine at night, grunting and squeeling so I guess I should have known, not that I can really do anything about it anyway.
Moving on...
Here are a few more shots of flowers in bloom that were taken on our walks in the forest.
They're just a small thing really, but I think flowers can sometimes really brighten a person's day.
At times when the world is so chaotic, sometimes it's nice to stop and enjoy the little things in life, like flowers and sunshine.
