Under construction: 2 various jigsaw puzzles

 since 3rd March I'm busy building San Francisco in 1500 pieces.

I started with the frame, assembled the Golden Gate Bridge 

and by now I have to find my way through loads of black and white pieces:

update 12th March

 first detail completed

(completed 12th march)

+ together with my wonderful husband I try to find my way through 

this stunning wooden jigsaw puzzle with loads of daffodils.

On top: assorted pieces

below: our success after 3 hours of 'trial and error'

 

 

(completed 10 March)

of course I had to think of this poem we once learnt in school:

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils. 

(William Wordswort, 1770-1850)