Today is the first day of spring, the Vernal Equinox. Equinox means that hours of light and dark are equal. With spring, everything is new and starting over after the bleakness of winter. It means longer days are coming with the extra light, as we look forward to time spent out of doors and summer vacation to come.
Sunny daffodils and tulips are the sentinels of spring, and this year they have been particularly beautiful as we have had unseasonably warm weather.
I can't help but remember the poem I learned in the fifth grade - Daffodils by William Wordsworth, "...and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils."
Nature celebrates spring with vivid color seen in the flowering trees and first budding crocus followed by the glorious blooming bulbs.
Claude Monet, the French painter who was responsible for the name, "Impressionists" with his painting, Impression: Sunrise, studied the changes of light in his garden. Is it any wonder that the china he designed in 1898 for his personal use at his home in Giverny, is a combination of white, blue and yellow.
In 1978 Robert Haviland & C. Parlon, the world renowned Limoges porcelain dinerware manufacturer, recreated a dinner service true to its original shape, pattern and colors called Giverny Range, Monet.
Such a happy color is a beautiful accent for the china and also one that brightens up a neutral environment.
The yellow tulips add a pop of color to this photo of the Henredon dining group, Oxford Classics.
Celebrate spring by using yellow as an accent color and by bringing fresh flowers into your home. As Wordsworth said, "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocond company."
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