Take a Leek for Saint Davy

Today is Saint David's Day (Welsh: Dydd Gwyl Dewi). Saint David (Dewi Sant) is the patron saint of Wales. On this day many Welsh hie themselves to their local purveyor of leeks, take a leek, and affix it to their lapel or hat. Lacking a real leek, some will instead use Peter's Leek (Cenhinen Pedr), the daffodil.

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My apologies to the Cymru, but the best I can do is a scaled down version.

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This is an update of a column I first published at Daily Kos in 2015 and have sporadically published here and there ever since