10 May 2011

May Flowers: Spring At Last!

After a few snow showers with thunder, cold rain, and some sleet, we finally had a warm spring day!  It was Mother's Day, and Reid offered to take me for a drive with camera and sketch book to see what we could find of spring.  These photos tell the story.

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Trout Lily (sometimes called Dog Tooth Violet

 


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Trout Lily, one face up

 


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Bloodroot

 


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Wild Oats or Sessile Bellwort

 


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Trillium Bud

 


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Lots of Hepatica

 


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Woods carpeted in flowers