THE SPRING ALTAR:

Set with intensely colored cloths and green candles symbolizing the return of green to the Earth, fertility and abundance. Spring flowers: wild flowers, crocus, pussy willows, daffodils, trilliums. Add eggs, honey, pomegranates, seeds, breads, apples.

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In the symbolic language of flowers a bunch of daffodils has often been used to denote happiness. This exquisite illustration by P.J. Redouté is from 'Choix des plus belles fleurs' (1827-33)

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Book of the day is The Gilly Flower Garden Book, perfect reading for the https://t.co/jw1ekIrVBG

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Of course I had to draw Roxas, too! And daffodils? Mmhmm! Can't wait to make this into a print!

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Finished headshot for BluefeatherGaming!~

Timelapse: https://t.co/Bh0L81hwEf

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Narcissus Poeticus is the last daffodil to flower, well into March. It features in Greek legend, as Narcissus was turned into the white daffodil by Nemesis, & is also the flower that Persephone was gathering when she was abducted by Pluto.
Img: Cicely Barker

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New design - kawaii cute spring bulbs! We’ve recently had crocuses, and now dwarf daffodils, in our back garden from bulbs my dad bought me last year 🙂 Find stores this design is available from at: https://t.co/zepuuXMhMS

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Set myself an extra challenge this week by combining tonight's with today's (and considered also including daffodils for St.David's Day but that was a step too far)

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Normally St David's Day would be my cue to tweet pictures of daffodils from collections but today I have scoured the rare books room of the Lindley Library and found you an honest to goodness dragon - dead sadly but you can't have everything. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

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The Bard (1774) by Thomas Jones (Wales, 1742–1803). Today is Saint David's Day (patron saint of Wales).

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The Daffodil Fairy
Cicely Mary Barker

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I drew this last year for but it seemed fitting for today! Happy

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I had to choose this for 1 March - it has everything; catkins, pussy-willow, daffodils, primroses and crocuses. "Spring bouquet", 1930 wood-engraving, by Gertrude Hermes.

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Here's my for today! To celebrate St Davids Day I filled your search bar with dragons. smoke and daffodils!

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On St David's Day celebrate with a watercolour of a Wild Daffodil by local botanist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson taken at Shotley Bridge, Durham in 1849. https://t.co/BRsFmB6R9q Archive

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