. . . Waited for the First Daffodils of the Year to Appear
Sunday, March 7, 2004; Page C02
. . . waited for the first daffodils of the year to suddenly appear -- miraculously, reliably, earlier than expected -- on the slopes of Rock Creek Park. It has happened again, already. It brings a message and a memory. The message is: Spring is near. The memory is of Lady Bird Johnson. The Committee for a More Beautiful Capital planted tulips by the Tidal Basin, mahonias behind the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, 800,000 bulbs on Columbia Island -- and a lot of early flowering daffodils on the hillsides of Rock Creek Park.
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Those sunny yellow flowers have just begun their appearance on the west side of Rock Creek Parkway just below the P Street Bridge. You can see them from your car.
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Daffodils are in bloom along P Street above Rock Creek Parkway.
(Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)
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