Sometimes when one goes wandering it is all about seeing loved ones. I spent four days with relatives and friends to return home happy I had booted the highways. I didn’t even take my camera. However, once back the wonderful maple forest at the head of our road beckoned for my return. Within that week away a profusion of fauna had burst through the soil, some in full array and some promising more to come. When I last visited the wood I spied a single little hepatica so my goal was to see if there was more. There was an abundance of them! However, in that short time they had bloomed and turned to producing seed so I was disappointed. Just as I was leaving to head home a flash of white caught my eye. And there it was, delicate posing saucily against a birch log. I’m not enamoured with the photo result but thrilled to have found my target.
I know not everyone gets as excited at finding nature’s treasures but you will have to bear with me. There were crowds of trillium, dog-toothed violets, yellow violets, purple violets and bell flowers. I spied wild ginger and peered beneath to see if any were in bloom and there they were (see pic) but the real treasure of the day stood glorious and breathtaking beside the laneway – two apple trees in full bloom survived untouched by the frost. When I got home I realized I had been gone over two hours, it felt like a fleeting moment. Its been raining since then so my next foray will likely find new wild flowers, blossoms and leaves.
Today, I’m wandering off to join a group of volunteers who are renovating a choir member’s house.
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