Harbingers of Spring. Photo ©Erika Burkhalter.

Daffodils

The harbingers of spring

Erika Burkhalter
SNAPSHOTS
Published in
3 min readFeb 13, 2021

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They’re poking their bright little heads up from the earth, ready to greet the warmer days of spring. It always seems like it isn’t quite time for them to appear, and yet here they are, dancing in the breeze, their ruffled skirts blazing brightly. Most of the following photos were shot with a fixed 85 mm lens with a f/1.8–5.6, which creates a nicely blurred background with a sharp plane of focus on the flower itself.

Blazing Brightly. Photo ©Erika Burkhalter.

Bisou, my little kitty baby has always had a soft spot for flowers. He is very attentive to all of the small changes in his yard — the emergence of the bulbs, the flowering of the azaleas, Mr.Squirrel’s antics. I caught him in this tender moment of smelling the daffodil.

Bisou and the Daffodil. Photo ©Erika Burkhalter.

They turn their little faces to greet the first rays of the days sun, and since that varies depending on where they are in the little ecosystem that is my backyard, they are all opening to the sky in slightly different directions.

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Erika Burkhalter
SNAPSHOTS

Photographer, yogi, cat-mom, lover of travel and nature, spreading amazement for Mother Earth, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MA Yoga, MS Neuropsychology)