I’ve lost count of how many daffodils Irene and I have planted since we moved to West Virginia in 2004. At one point, it was around 6,000, but I’m no longer sure. And each year, the first daffodil of Spring has predictably popped sometime between March 13 and March 17.

But not this year. After an amazingly mild Winter, the first daffodil (and the second, and the third, and several more) bloomed today, about 2-1/2 weeks earlier than ever before.

Behold!

It’s wonderful to see some yellow in March, but what this portends for our annual Thank God It’s Spring Daffodil party we hold each April remains to be seen.