On Saturday the sun did indeed come to visit us for a short while. Yesterday was gray and gloomy, as is the drizzly start to today. I headed out with the camera to see what I could find in my yard. Here is what I came up with.
On closer inspection the tree buds look like exotic flowers. Dainty and delicate, each one looks a bit different.
The daffodils are making progress and I can even see flower buds coming now. They seem to be basking in the sunshine, don’t they?
The white flowering variety of the bushes I don’t know the name of. The flowers are papery, almost like tiny Chinese lanterns.
The skunk cabbage down in the boggy part of our woods is now coming up. The bears love this plant, and hopefully we will get a few bears this year.
The forsythia is going to pop this coming week I think. Right now all I could find was this brave little flower in the back yard. A bit further south the forsythia is already out, but up here in the “mountains” we are not quite there yet.
UPDATE 4/9: I found out the bushes are called pieris japonica, or Lily of the Valley bush. I guess it does kind of look like Lily of the Valley ...
Posted by Lynne on 04/07/2008 at 05:57 AM
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