give her the nod, originally uploaded by leftantler.
We love this Vancouver photo. It is artistically a home run, combining daffodils and an urban landscape into an image as pleasing as daffodil meadows and daffodil hills. Image taken on April 17, 2008, in George Wainborn Park.

Butterfly In Camo, originally uploaded by glenda.suebee.

This delightful image was taken on April 19, 2008, in the photographer’s garden in Waverly, Ohio. The camo is pretty cool.

Long and winding road, originally uploaded by swishphotos.

We admire this photo taken in Aberdeen, Scotland, on April 29, 2008. Lucky lawnmower.

Fence, Road and Tree, originally uploaded by justb.

We always say this is likely our last snowy daffodils photo of the season. This wintry and lovely image was taken in Burnaby Mountain Park, BC, on April 19, 2008.

daffodils from the air, originally uploaded by artistgal.

We came upon this nifty April 18, 2002 photo of Skagit Valley “from the air”, and even though it is not a 2008 image, we’ll share it here. It probably looks pretty much the same this year (smile).

We don’t tend to post “just daffodils” here, because there are so many beautiful photos published of “just daffodils”. We prefer a landscape and other interesting things going on in the photograph. Sometimes we make an exception when a photograph is too breathtaking to leave out. Steve-h took this beauty on April 13, 2008, in Bushy Park, Dublin, Ireland.

Thumbnail image from video. Click here to watch.

We chanced upon two treasures just now:
1. A gifted writer, artist, and garden blogger called The Occasional Gardener, full of lush energy and imagery, a treasure trove of art and imagination woven into our modern experience. This is a blog we’ll want to return to again and again. In fact, we’re going to grab the RSS feed to bring the blog onto our desktop.
2. A video of the daffodils taken recently at The New York Botanical Garden.

A big thanks to The Occasional Gardener for his blog and posting the video of the daffodils.

Marching in a line, originally uploaded by baklein62.

University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum has daffodils coming up in the Main Valley, and when all are in bloom, the official count will be a half-mile long line of 20,000.

Here’s another image by baklein62 from the same series.

These images were taken on April 25, 2008.

You can learn more about this dynamic art project at the Imagine/Align website. Be sure to watch the video showing the planting of this daffodils line at the start of the project.

Bird Island (speckled with Daffs), originally uploaded by The County Clerk.

Looks like Spring has arrived in Chicago. It’s a beautiful thing. This photo was taken on April 26, 2008, at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Click here for the original high-resolution photo where you can readily see the daffodils on Bird Island in the distance.

One of our favorite photos of the season. The ladybug looks “real” on the screen, complete with sheen. This close-up was taken in Skagit Valley on April 12, 2008, by photographer BratoDB.

Wonderful! We’ve never seen anything quite like this fountain on Mainau Island in Germany.

We want to find an 80-degree day and sit half-way up the stairs. Fountain image was taken on March 22, 2008 by photographer the aliens.

People in glass houses., originally uploaded by *Hairbear.

This innovative photograph was taken on April 4, 2008, at the Blaise Castle Estate in Bristol UK.

Afternoon reflections, originally uploaded by 1bluecanoe.

This cheerful image was taken in Gig Harbor, Washington, on April 2, 2008. You can see more of 1bluecanoe’s images on Darckr, a nifty Flickr viewer.

Reflections in a mirrored candlebox, originally uploaded by Lubybel.

We’ve never seen a photograph quite as captivating and wrote to the photographer inquiring about the image. Here are the interesting details Lubybel shares with us (image taken on April 2, 2008):

The daffodils were picked that morning from my own garden in Essex England and placed in a vase on a coffee table. I was sitting by the fireplace when I spotted the reflection in a mirrored candlebox placed on the mantelpiece. My canon G9 refused to take the shot on automatic focus so I selected manual. The bevel edged candlebox measures 1inch deep by 3 inches wide. The cultivar name of the daffodils being ‘Early Flame’.

Yellow is a popular colour this season!, originally uploaded by fastbird61.

Another calm daffodils and H20 photograph with a boat bonus – we could stare at this photo all day. Image taken on April 23, 2008 on the shores of Loch Carron, Scotland.

Coming soon…, originally uploaded by driek.

This photo, taken in Lisse on April 12, 2008, could also be named “Great Expectations”.

The Perfect Spot, originally uploaded by floralgal.

Yes, we know, it’s Coca-Cola’s slogan, but it works so well with this beautiful April 19, 2008 image. With corporate landscapes like this, we would think Pepsi is #1.

12447 – Helmsley, originally uploaded by M R Fletcher.

It’s difficult to pass up a “daffodils and water” photograph. Here’s a case in point. This image was taken on April 19, 2008.

Writing this blog has many of its own rewards, such as discovering a place called The Fantastic Umbrella Factory, located on a small farm in Charlestown, Rhode Island. This whimsical image was taken on April 19, 2008.

Skagit Daffodils, originally uploaded by wendyb1214.

We haven’t posted a Skagit image for awhile, though we see breathtaking photographs routinely. This breathtaking photograph was taken on April 18, 2008, proving that the daffodils still rule in the middle of the Tulip Festival.

Click here for a high-resolution image.

Springtime Fighting, originally uploaded by chorwedel.

We love the choreography in this image of “Two daffodils fighting for spring to arrive” (photographer’s description). These Midwesterners live in Chad’s yard in Bolingbrook, Illinois.

The image was taken on March 22, 2008, and we figured things have changed a lot in the past month. So we wrote to the photographer to see whazzup with the snow and the blooms. Chad reports: “The snow is all melted and the daffodils are in full bloom. Looks like one poor guy didn’t make it with a bloom, but all of the rest are doing just fine.”

Smiling Throughout -, originally uploaded by Lochaven.

A wild snowy daffodils action shot! We would’ve bet we’d seen the last daffodil and snow photo for 2008, but here we have a cold one in Northern New Mexico for April 17. We love Lochaven’s title for this image: “Smiling Throughout”.

, originally uploaded by H. Mal.

H. Mal says it for all of us: Happiness. Things are growing, spring is coming. This image was taken on April 17, 2008.

fenced in, originally uploaded by jahat.

We really, really like this photo. It’s a bit unsettling (in a great, artistic way). Fenced-in drama in Woodburn, Oregon on April 16, 2008.

We are mesmerized by this photograph titled “Spring Dance”. The garden magic occurred in tuanh’s backyard in a suburb of Washington, D.C. on March 25, 2008.