Day 96 – Daffodil Days

Today marks the beginning of an annual festival here in my town. It’s called Daffodil Days. The goal is to plant 1 million daffodils throughout the city to celebrate renewal, beauty and live-ability in every neighborhood. So far they have over 250,000 planted. There are beautiful daffodils bountifully growing everywhere your eyes can see throughout the town (even in front of my house). They give the bulbs out every year and my neighbor actually planted them last season and they are all the way grown and perfectly beautiful.

Today was actually a gloomy sort of day, but fairly warm. I went on a nice walk in the afternoon and later this afternoon made my way to the beach. There was a layer of fog that hovered over certain parts of the island this afternoon that looked truly beautiful in a strange way. I feel like fog adds a certain sense of mystery to a view. Anyhow, the beach was littered with gorgeous pink sea flowers of some sort, shells, clams and the prettiest seaweed I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure what was going on with the tide but it washed up the most colorful array of sea things I’ve seen in a long time (and on such a grey day- bizarre but totally awesome).

I walked the beach, deeply inhaling the misty breeze blowing my way. Then I went over to the opening ceremony of Daffodil Days on Bannister’s Wharf. There were quite a few people there including Miss Newport and the Mayor who cut the ribbon to kick off the festival. The town was a buzz, people were wearing yellow everywhere and I enjoyed lingering for a bit around the activity and festivities. This weekend will be filled with activities and I’m looking forward to an amazing weekend. #missingHGAL