Pare che la primavera sia davvero arrivata.
Fa ancora freddo, ma gli alberi si sono coperti di piccoli e delicati fiori dalle tinte pastello.
Sul mio balcone, il mio "pezzetto di giardino" sono finalmente spuntati anche i muscari, che da qualche giorno hanno aggiunto il loro bel viola al giallo dei crochi e questa mattina, sorpresa!, era sbocciato anche qualche piccolo narciso.
Sono bellissimi i narcisi, tra i fiori in bulbo che preferisco.
Quest'autunno avevo piantato crochi, muscari, narcisi, fresie e giacinti e piano piano stanno sbocciando.
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| My daffodills |
Il looks like spring has definitely arrived.
It's still a bit cold outside but the trees are covered with small and delicate pastel-coloured flowers.
On my balcony, my "bit of garden", the grape hyacints have finally bloomed: it's been some days now that they add their deep purple colour to the yellow crocuses and this morning.... surprise! Also some little daffodils have bloomed!! I love daffodils, they are my favourite bulb flowers.
Last autum I had sown crocuses, grape hyacints, fraesias, daffodils and hyacints and they are slowly blooming. Love it.
Lungo la strada che faccio per andare al lavoro c'è una bellissima magnolia. E' bello osservare giorno dopo giorno i progressi delle fioriture.
On the way I do to go to work there's a beautiful big magnolia. It's lovely to stop and observe every day the small changes in the blooming.
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| Flowers in bloom |
Per dare il benvenuto alla primavera e a Pasqua, che si avvicina a grandi passi ho preparato alcune piccole decorazioni da appendere sulla porta o in casa. Questi coniglietti, con le carote da sgranocchiare o le uova di Pasqua che offrono sono perfetti per rinfrescare l'atmosfera con i colori delicati della primavera.
Che ne dite??
To welcome spring and Easter, which is quickly hopping near, I have
prepared some small bunting to hang on the door or inside your home.
These lovely bunnies with their carrots to much or the Easter Eggs
they're offering are simply perfect to refresh the atmosphere with the
delicate spring colours. What do you think??
Vi lascio con una poesia di William Wordsworth, uno dei maggiori poeti romantici inglesi, dedicata ai narcisi. Ne amo la musicalità e le immagini che evoca. Non chiedetemi di tradurla in italiano... la rovinerei!
I say goodbye with a poem by William Wordsworth, one of the greatest romantic english poets, dedicated to the daffodills. I have always loved the music inside the words and thebeautiful images it recalls.
DAFFODILLS
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.
(W. Wordsworth)
