“Watch this space”. We will be blogging the first daffodils soon. Our first photos will be posted in late December or early January.

Wishing for Peace on Earth in 2010 and a “plastic-bag-free planet”.

Daffodils, originally uploaded by flipperman75.

Photographer flipperman75 tells us about this image: Picture was taken on April 5, 2009 in Washington, DC, in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. Building in the background is the National Archives.

We rarely see daffodil photos from Washington, D.C. We are glad to see this majestic composition.

Or, we could say, we break for taxes. We’re taking a break from the First Daffodils 2009 blog while we dash around in a panic trying to get our paperwork done before April 15.

We will return as soon as possible, and we will be blogging until May 1.

We’ve been felled by a winter cold since mid-week so no posting, no nothin’. Sorry! Hopefully we can get back to this during the upcoming week. Lots of snowy daffodils, we’re sure.

I WANDER’D lonely as a cloud. Now that this blog is “officially open”, we’d like to call attention to our Daffodils note cube, which is sold on Amazon.com. Our love for the Wordsworth poem and our need for a pretty desk notepad led us to design and print the note cube pictured just to the right of this post. Here is our website, which has direct links to our product pages on Amazon.com. These note cubes sell and ship directly from Amazon. You may enjoy this note cube for many reasons. Here’s one: it’s a great way to memorize the Wordsworth poem, since it is written in its entirety on the note cube. It’s an excellent stress reliever when you’re on hold with the cable company.

If you do order the Daffodils note cube, we’d love to hear your comments here and also in the comments area of its Amazon page. Thanks!

This just in from Sharon Howell in Tennessee. This blog is officially “open” for 2009!

Dear I Spring:
It’s November 23 here in Tennessee and I have finished planting hundreds more daffodils around our house and in our woods. You may love these glorious flowers more than I do, but I doubt it! Seriously, aren’t they just too beautiful for words, though Wordsworth certainly captured their essence. When we left our house in the Boston suburbs and the about 60 daffs in the front flower bed, I was determined to have many more down here, as many as I could plant. Each year I’ve added more and more, and now cannot wait until Spring!
Keep going with your project. The photos add so much cheer to your viewers.
All the best to you,
Sharon Howell

Thanks for visiting the First Daffodils blog in 2008. A special thanks, also, to all of the photographers who permitted us to use their daffodil photographs on these pages. Most of all, a round of applause to the daffodils around the world, “who” gave us so much joy as we watched spring arrive.

Now that the daffodils in the Northern Hemisphere have had their time in the sun (and the snow), we’ll have to find other occupations to fill our time until the daffodils come out next spring.

We will post some additional photos from 2008 sometime this summer. Then we’ll take a break until January 2o09. Thanks again for stopping by, and see you next year.

Day Dreaming photo used with permission, courtesy of tmalinski

The spectacular daffodil images just keep on coming. We contacted the photographer, Tom Malinski of the Canton Camera Club, curious about the story behind this photo, and here is what he reports:

This image was taken at the Laurel Ridge Foundation in Litchfield, Connecticut – better known as the Daffodil fields in Northfield. My wife and I visit this place with many of our camera club friends every year. Depending on the weather, the scenic fields with the pond in the background can have many different moods. This photo of a couple sitting in the middle of the flowers holding hands and daydreaming was very touching.

This image was taken on May 4, 2008.

Lochmaddy daffodils photo used with permission, courtesy of scotproof

Another beautiful “daffodils and water” photo from Scotland, courtesy of scotproof. This pretty image was taken on May 2 at Lochmaddy (in Scottish Gaelic, “Loch of the dogs”) in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

photo used with permission, courtesy of Mike Organ

We’ve just discovered more beautiful gardens, Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. This image was taken on April 27, 2008.