As the sun rose above my neighbor’s rooftop and streamed through my kitchen shutters yesterday morning, I noticed that the sunbeam created a marvelous backlight to something on my kitchen table. That was all it took for me to jump up, grab some scissors, and dash out the front door to clip three miniature daffodils blooming on the walkway. I used my ZMC50 macro lens, set the Nikon Z8’s image size to square (what I almost always use for flower photos) and with the macro’s shallow depth of focus, I stopped down the lens so all of the petals would be in focus. Because of the slow shutter speed, I propped the camera on top of a stack of cookbooks that were handy to grab. The backlit petals rimming the slightly darker corona make that center cup appear to be almost orange. I equate daffodils with spring. My new garden is filled with blooming daffodils, and I thank the previous owner of this house for planting so many. Yes, spring is on the way!