Spring at last!

April 15- May 1, 2015:   It seemed spring would never get here, but after a couple of false starts, it finally did!  

Here is a photo journal of spring as it appeared over the past couple of weeks:

Mid-April on the trail

 First Daffodils (mid-April)

Layers of Early Spring Color (and flooding)

 Siberian Squill in side yard

Mid April (4/18) Foggy Trail

 Watching to see what will bloom here (Trail, mid-April)

Glory of the Snow (Chionodoxa) in my garden

Trail, April 21

 More Snow!  April 22-23)

Trail, late April

Hairy Woodpecker, late April (4/26) on the trail

 My first experience with the lovely little Trout Lilies 
(Erythronium americanum)

  Blood Root (Sanguinaria canadensi)

 Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)

Trout Lilies again (May 1)

 May Apple

 Trail on May 1st

Things are greening up; leaves on trees and bushes are starting to burst open.

Spring is busting out all over!  YAY!

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