Primrose

I'm feeling a bit tired and grumpy today and petulant about not getting any flowers on Sunday for the Mother's Day I nearly didn't have. Everyone was busy though and it's just one day after all. I did some thinking about my own mum; I've really missed her over this past year of trials. Here's a flower I bought at the Wildflower Centre last week instead.

Primrose path
Meaning

The pleasant route through life, of pleasure and dissipation.
Origin

This phrase was coined by Shakespeare, in Hamlet, 1602. It is evidently a simple allusion to a path strewn with flowers.

Ophelia:
I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,
As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

Ophelia is warning her brother take his own advice and not reject the difficult and arduous path of righteousness that leads to Heaven in favour of the easy path of sin.