Skunk Cabbages - South Run Park
Fairfax Station, VA
“This is the first really spring day…Something analogous to the thawing of the ice seems to have taken place in the air. At the end of the winter there is a season in which we are daily expecting spring, and finally a day when it arrives…Methinks the first obvious evidence of spring is the pushing out of the swamp willow catkins…the the pushing up of skunk-cabbage spathes….”
Henry David Thoreau, 1853
Skunk Cabbages - South Run Park
Fairfax Station, VA
“This is the first really spring day…Something analogous to the thawing of the ice seems to have taken place in the air. At the end of the winter there is a season in which we are daily expecting spring, and finally a day when it arrives…Methinks the first obvious evidence of spring is the pushing out of the swamp willow catkins…the the pushing up of skunk-cabbage spathes….”
Henry David Thoreau, 1853