in Just spring...mud-liscious...puddle wonderful

Spring has sprung and the week is supposed to get increasingly "puddle wonderful" so I took the opportunity to take out the newish camera and see what it could do with my backyard wildflowers on a cloudy day -- it passed! Here are a group of trout lilies growing up close to a towering maple tree right behind the house.


Here is one of the many white trillium growing behind my neighbor's and our house.

Here is the first of the bright crimson trillium. They will turn pink as they age. They are smaller than the white trillium which are probably 5 inches across.


A closeup of one of the bunches of trout lilies. Looks like they have made major inroads in our front lawn as well!


Seeing the first of our fiddlehead ferns is always great fun as well!


Of course our star magnolias are starting to bloom as well with the saucer magnolias not far behind.



Our hyacinths inevitably are up for Easter and this year was no exception.

Warren planted these bulbs many years ago after we saw some lawns just covered with blue flowers and we wanted to be the same. This is the first year that they have filled in enough to really give the illusion of a bright blue lawn in front. Like the trout lilies, it is the back of the flower that you see. I have no idea what these are called! They come out after the last of the crocus have died back so we move from a yellow and purple lawn to a blue one. The forget-me-nots are next!