85/365: “Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding." ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

Our daffodils are in full, radiant bloom right now, and the show is just breathtaking!! I've been practicing with getting nice group images for the past week or so, and this morning I hoped I'd get one that was just right. My last attempts the other day were at an angle which looked right when I was taking them but in the end, they were a little bit too high. How nice that I can just step outside to take more pictures! I was so happy that the flowers were still wet from the rain we got last night!

Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship.[1] He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years. Wikipedia: Gian Carlo Menotti