daffodils i – with palm and pampas, originally uploaded by tamerrah.

Photographer tamerrah tells us about this February 7, 2011 image: This photo was taken on a traffic island at the Husky House on the Old Island Highway in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. It looks like there are more daff’s rising to the challenge that their early cousins presented. There are many bulbs peeking out everywhere, but so far these are the first fully blooming bulbs other than crocus and snowdrops that have opened.

Sure Sign Of Spring, originally uploaded by Arlene Gee.

Photographer Arlene Gee sends us this information:
Location: Burnaby Mountain Park, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Date: February 5, 2011
Camera: Sony DSLR-A900 (full frame)
Lens: Minolta Maxxum AF 135/2.8
Camera settings: ISO100, 135mm, f4.5, 1/100 sec.

Burnaby Mountain Park is famous for its scenic views, rose garden, and “Playground of the Gods” (japanese totems). In the springtime, there is usually two large round beds of daffodils.

Victoria daffodils, Mar 01 10 (1), originally uploaded by Oystercatchergirl.

Photographer Oystercatchergirl tells us about this March 1, 2010 photo: The photo was taken at Holland Point, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, looking south to the Olympic Mountains in Washington state. It’s been daffodil paradise for about a month!

PebbleCottage, originally uploaded by Betwixt N’ Between.

Photographer Betwixt N’ Between tells us about this March 23, 2010 image: The photo was taken in Gonzales Bay, Victoria BC. I don’t know anything about the person who decorated their garage with river stones, but they also meticulously covered a lot of other objects in their yard with the same stone…The Daffodils are a standard variety that grow all over Victoria.

Pink + yellow, originally uploaded by pheony1.

Photographer pheony1 tells us about this March 18, 2010 image: The photo was taken in Chilliwack, BC Canada taken on March 18, 2010. We were going for a drive in the countryside from Vancouver and happened to spot this beautiful combination of Cherry trees blooming next to a daffodil field!

Vancouver 2010-March021, originally uploaded by Diana Walker.

Photographer Diana Walker tells us about this March 2, 2010 image: Photo taken on my favorite walk, Kitsilano Beach, near Burrard Bridge, Vancouver. I remember thinking – Wow – the incredible Vancouver 2010 Olympics (February 12th to 28th) just finished 2 days ago – and here are these beautiful daffodils, so gently living here on this side, you would never know hundreds of thousands of athletes and people from around the world were here, celebrating and partying 24 hours a day, and everything seems so quiet and gentle now! I love living in Vancouver, and what a beautiful grouping of daffodils.

Daffodil picking time, originally uploaded by beth.rand.

Photographer beth.rand tells us about this February 20, 2010 image: It is part of a large plantation near our home in Victoria, British Columbia, depending on the season Daffs, potatoes and pumpkins are grown there and make great photo opportunities.

The beautiful tree is a Garry Oak (Quercus garryana), also known as Oregon White Oak or Oregon Oak.

Day 11 – It’s SPRING!, originally uploaded by Free 2 Be.

Photographer Free 2 Be tells us: The photo was taken in the garden on the deck of my condo, in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. They are King Alfred daffodils (I think).

Here are more comments about these Vancouver daffodils, taken from Free 2 Be’s posted flickr image: 11/365 (January 11, 2010) – I love many things about Vancouver. One of these is the fact that [we] tend to refer to January as “Spring”. Yes, technically the rest of the country is usually still in the grips of Old Man Winter, and yes, we can certainly get hit with cold weather after January 1st…. but look, my daffodils are coming up already! And no, this is not unusual…I generally expect to see them sticking their heads out already.

So even though the calendar says winter, I say spring!

Backlit Daffodil Bud, originally uploaded by LIBRRIAN.

Photographer LIBRRIAN tells us about this March 1, 2009 image: I plan to take more shots as that particular blossom opens up. I have been following this plant since it came out of the ground. We have several different varieties in the garden and I am waiting to be surprised when it blooms.

I will figure out how to geotag this image, so you can see the exact co-ordinates. This plant is growing in the front garden of my co-op in Richmond, BC, on the west coast of Canada. The climate here is very mild in winter, however, this year we have had quite a lot of snow. The TV weatherman has forecast snow for Saturday, and if we get it, I will shoot that, too.

You can see the developing bloom in there!

We followed up with a question about the backlighting, and here is what LIBBRIAN tells us: Yes, the sun is behind the bud, because I wanted to see how full the sepals were. Today, they are nearly full and the bud is beginning to swell, just a little.