Another Beautiful Spring Day!

This is a Jack in the Pulpit just beginning to open. Its leaves are still not unfurled.

The woods behind my house have been left to their own devices since we moved in and in the spring remind me of the woods were I grew up! They aren't very deep but are pretty much impassable in the summer when all the shrubbery fills in. Before we went on vacation three years ago and our neighbor behind us chopped and killed some of our trees without our permission, we couldn't see the neighbors once summer came. Sadly that is no longer the case but the spring does bring all sorts of wildflowers back there and I always feel compelled to take pictures hoping for that one perfect shot!

These are the "fiddleheads" which are the ferns beginning to open. Where it is shady they come up about a week later than the sunnier spots where the ferns are all open already.

Another view of the Jack in the Pulpit so you can see the very dramatic inside.

Still more.

The pretty lavender wildflowers in the backyard. A certain black kitty was stalking them while the orange kitty was nuzzling my camera. It doesn't make picture taking easy! I believe this is called Spring Beauty. The yellow flowers from the other day are either called Dog Toothed Violets or Trout Lilies and are a member of the lily family. They are just beginning to come out in my yard.