It was a rainy day yesterday when my wife looked out the kitchen window, saw a small bit of yellow about 50 yards away across very wet ground, and alerted me by saying, “I see the first Daffodils!”. Just five were blooming. We have literally hundreds of plants all over our 2.5 acre yard. Bright green stems of the flowers are poking out of the ground in mass. Hundreds of yellow and white blooms will soon follow. With hard rain falling I made the image below while sheltered under the patio roof … with decorative ceramic squirrels frozen in their usual place. I needed more photos. But, not enough to get wet. So, I waited.
Around 1800 the rain turned to drizzle so I decided to make a soggy walk across the grass with a few muddy pools to dodge, and get at those yellow blooms that attracted our attention in the first place. The light was not good, so it was time to use the built-in camera’s flash.
Not satisfied with what I had captured thus far, when I got out of bed this morning I grabbed my Fujifilm camera with 35mm prime lens and again dodged wet places in the grass to get close to the scant number of yellow blooms. It was much more satisfying. Especially the last two images below. The tilting LCD on the camera makes it possible to “get low” which would have been difficult on the sloped, muddy ground, coupled with my creaky, aged body. I felt good when I finally got the photos I wanted to represent our first Daffodils for 2019. It brightened my day. Hopefully yours as well.
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