Wildflower season

Spring has arrived.

I took an extended walk through my backyard patch of forest, today, roaming over the hills and through the empty forests. The snow has disappeared, exposing dry, brown leaves from the fall, a litter of twigs and branches snapped from the trees by the winter’s wind and snow. Here and there, though, the colors of Spring have begun to appear.

red trillium
red trillium (not a great photo, you can see only two of three petals!)
bloodroot
bloodroot
hillside with rocky outcrop and new green plant growth
A steep, rocky outcrop with a carpet of green emerging…