There are also some daffodils in the front garden...
and in the house I found a few more cheerful yellow objects:
I thought about the sun and its warmth, yellow daylilies that bloom during the summer, my bedroom walls when I was a young woman, sunflowers and yellow squash. I remembered fields of sunflowers I once saw in southern France and a yellow plaid dress I had when I was 13.
I'm glad I noticed the forsythias.