Tulip Festival

Yesterday Noah and I went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point with Grandma and Grandpa Patterson. He seemed to love being in the stroller for that long. He can't get enough of it lately, and tries to climb in it once in a while. We walked through essentially all of the gardens. It was a great day for it: warm with a slight breeze, and brightly overcast. It's possible that I was more excited about the daffodils than I was the tulips, I love them! They're such beautiful happy flowers. I really liked the hyacinths as well. They smell AMAZING.

The Daffodils - William Wordsworth

I wandered 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 stretched 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.