Spring advances daily. And nowhere is this evident than in a forest that has to give in to the seasonal changes of light. As in the Fall, when the non-evergreens shed their ‘food factory’ leaves to get some rest, the Spring’s lenghthening daylight says, “OK, crank up production! Get those leaves out – pronto!” And if you happen to be a wildflower in a dense northwestern forest, you’ve got a very small window to show your stuff, get pollinated and set seed before that canopy fills out.
Lately, I’d noticed the distant trees changing from brown to green. It was this window that we knew was at hand when Eric said we’d better go find those trillium this weekend.
So we went online to find out if anyone had posted any trillium sightings. We didn’t find any, but we did find a link to a map listing a trail in Redmond called the Trillium Trail.
It was like Hiking for Dummies: lots of trillium 🙂
And other fun flowers…
My first trillium!
A small, tiny unidentified flower.
Woodpecker litter.
Skunk Cabbage. This one was bigger than my hand!
