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This pretty pair of bloodroot flowers on the forest floor stretch toward the light on this rainy spring day. One of spring’s loveliest blooms, the bloodroot only blossoms for a short period of time each spring, which makes its beauty even more special!
Hiking along a section of the Bruce Trail yesterday, it was an amazing carpet of trilliums. Such a variety in the petals, some pink, some fluted edges, some small, some big, and this one long petal sticking out like a tongue. We decided to go depsite the rain off and on all day... mostly off on our hike. ... a great afternoon.
Hello everyone, This is just a photo, unprocessed, which I pulled from the archives. I uploaded it so I could tell you all that my sister Ellen, of whom you have heard so much, is now dying.
She has stopped dialysis, so the end will be swift. She has started hospice.
I will be flying out to Salt Lake City to spend her last days with her. I may be gone for a couple of weeks, with no time to comment on photos.(Although my husband just bought me a belated birthday present today... an Ipad, so if I have time at night, I MIGHT be able to go to Flickr for a while. I don't own a laptop, only my desk computers, so the iPad is a wonderful gift.)
But, I will certainly see you all when I get back.
Cross Plains State Park, Wisconsin.
Thank you so much for your views and favs! This has been the best ever response to a photo of mine!
This one made picture-of-the-day just because flowers blooming in the woods in Michigan in February is just unheard of.
210/365?
ODC: leaves
Pleasant Valley Conservancy, Dane County, Wisconsin. Also called Mayflower.
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Fourth in this Spring Flowers series...
Captured a few springs back, these Muscari (Grape Hyacinths) always bring a smile to my face.
They are so unique and really do look like individual grapes that you could pluck and eat. But DON'T eat them as they are mildly poisonous.
Native to Greece and Asia, they come in a variety of colors and they are particularly beautiful when grown in mass beds as a ground-cover.
As spring ephemera's however, they don't last too long and they dry up quickly. Like tulips, their underground bulbs then wait all year only to pop up again the next spring :)
カタクリ, Erythronium japonicum Decne, Dogtooth Violet,
城山かたくりの里, SHIROYAMA Dogtooth Violet Village,
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NIKON D700 with TAMRON SP AF90mm F/2.8 MACRO 1:1
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Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm/F1.4
Erythronium pagoda "キバナカタクリ" @ Showa Commemorative National Government Park, Tokyo
bluebells in the woods -- a sure sign of spring
Weekly Alphabet Challenge: s is for season
Take Aim: signs
Here's a photo from the past, just to say hi to everyone. This is a little "False Rue Anemone" (NOT Bloodroot, as I said originally). It is a Springtime ephemeral wildflower, amid others of its kind. They bloom during the cooler weather of Spring, and disappear when the temperatures get into the 70s F.
I am coming along with my project. Sorry I've been so absent, but it is necessary. I actually took my camera out with me the other day when I had to go do errands, and I stopped to shoot a pretty scene, only to find out I am so out of practice, I forgot to put the card in the camera. Sigh.
Now, my big brother has suddenly decided to come visit us, and the house is a wreck... except for the part where my son is going to move in. So I have to scramble to try to make at least a couple of rooms, and the bathrooms, presentable. Sigh.
I've been enjoying all your photos, whether I have time to comment, or not. You are a talented group of photographers!
I couldn't reach the large patch of these that I usually see this time of year because of flooded trails, but at least I found these few outliers.
Take Aim: the blues
52 in 2019 Challenge: #19 the blues
Snow Trillium is one of the earliest spring ephemeral wildflowers to bloom in southwestern Pennsylvania. This tiny species of trillium is much less common than its showier relatives, laying low to the ground amongst the leaf litter on the forest floor.
I haven't been putting up many photos in the last couple of years, and I decided I wanted to try to put more on Flickr. So I will go to the archives if nothing current takes my fancy.
Here is a walk in the woods in early Spring 2015, when the Lesser Celandine are blooming everywhere... just about every square inch is covered with them. To get this shot I probably squashed about 300 of them! They don't seem to mind, though. The next day you can't see where I squashed them!
They are little buttercups, with bright reflective petals. For a close up see: flic.kr/p/rXwKaJ
5.1.18 first sunset in May... spring ephemerals emerge, bloom and disappear just in a matter of weeks. Maybe that’s why spring feels like a fleeting season...
The Trout Lilly is a perennial plant that is native to east North America and occurs in woodland habitats. Dispersal of seeds is facilitated by ants that are attracted to specialized structures (called elaiosomes) on the seeds .
Due to high rainfall, mosquitos were particularly abundant in Spring 2018. Here a mosquito appears to be attempting to feed on a Trout Lilly flower. However, not all mosquitos bite (humans). Indeed, some species consume enough protein (as larvae) to produce their eggs. The second oldest fossilized mosquito ever found (circa 79 million years old) is preserved in amber and was discovered in Alberta, Canada.
Deciduous woodland, West Quebec, Canada
Camera: Olympus EM5 Mk II
Lens: Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston 50/1.8 (1960's twin zebra version; M42)
Photo Taken May 2018
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Cross Plains State Park, Wisconsin. As illustrated by this trio of plants, bloodroot first emerges as new, curled up leaves from which the flower later appears in the center. Later, the flower dies back and the leaves grow.
Photographed from a lovely spring garden in our neighborhood.
This spring ephemeral is commonly called Glory of the Snow (Chionodoxa forbesii), and this particular variety is called Blue Giant.