A sure sign of spring, early season wild flowers have a way of lifting the spirits after the cold months of winter. My favorite flowers are not exactly wild though. In Cades Cove, most of the old homesites have at least a few daffodils still returning each year to brighten up the early weeks of spring. Perhaps we can consider them wild in the same sense that we consider the rainbow and brown trout of the Smokies as wild.
Each year I look forward to seeing these flowers. The ones at home usually bloom after the ones in the Smokies. For some reason the Cumberland Plateau tends to be a bit colder in the spring. The ones in our front yard are getting close but have yet to actually bloom. Seeing them in the Cove last week was definitely a treat!
