I wandered into our back yard to tidy up after the latest windy afternoon and was pleased to find a wild daffodil blossoming beneath the trees. Hello, I said, because I talk to plants now like a come‐to‐life creature in lederhosen from some critically panned children’s book found on an end cap at the back wall of a dollar store.

The flower species was introduced to the Americas from Europe. It is most common in our part of the country to find it in the wild in Island County, and it is widely cultivated in Skagit County. Thanks given to whatever eddies of fortune carried the bulb of the plant to our garden where it has become a herald of spring, I went about my business.