The first of many, originally uploaded by seikinsou.

Photographer seikinsou writes to us about this dramatic landscape photographed on February 28, 2009: The photo is taken in a private garden in County Westmeath, Ireland. The owners planted hundreds of daffodil bulbs many years ago, and these bulbs have multiplied and taken over the edges of several meadows.

In this, they were continuing the tradition of previous owners, who had planted the first daffodils there, decades earlier.

We’ve learned that seikinsou writes a blog about the daffodil in haiku poetry.
europasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/04/daffodil-and-narcissus.html

Here’s a haiku about the above-featured photograph (written by Isabelle Prondzynski):

daffodil –
the very first
of thousands

Anyone can contribute a daffodils haiku to the blog or to seikinsou’s photos – give it a try!  We’re going to write one (or thousands).