Do you ever notice how green things are after a spring night of falling rain? Our yard is even more green this morning than it looks in this photo. It even smells green!
Inspired by trillium photos over at Books in Northport I went for a walk during lunch yesterday. There’s a little woodland park in a subdivision not far from the office where years ago I spotted a lot of trillium. Given the trillium are blooming in parts north of here I knew I had to get going if I was going to see any in a much warmer suburban micro-climate.
Guess what?
The floor of the woods was jam packed full of trillium!
Trillium are Michigan’s state flower and it used to be, back when I was a kid, that seeing them was rare. So I feel lucky to have this patch so close to the office.
Look at the top petal…is that a baby mosquito getting ready for lunch?
This little patch of woods in smack in the center of a perfectly manicured subdivision, with it’s pretty pear and crab apple trees.
There was a chickadee just singing his heart out, hidden somewhere in the middle of a flower encrusted pear tree. I wondered what the world looked like from his vantage point, high in that fluffy white confection of a tree.
It was a pretty walk. I’m glad I didn’t miss this part of spring while I was slaving away at work.
Kind of made me smile.
Change Is Hard 
May 14, 2011 at 7:07 am
The trilliums are gorgeous!! I have never seen so many! Neat that you can walk there from work!
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May 14, 2011 at 7:13 am
Dawn, thank you for sharing the beautiful trillium, fruit tree blossoms and SUNSHINE! We have the flowers, but our sunshine has once more gone into hiding. That’s okay. You’ve reminded me to enjoy what I have, and later this morning when I get to a high-speed connection I’ll post some trillium and plum blossoms on my photo blog, “A Shot in the Light.” The plum trees flower before the cherries and are the first flowering trees I see every spring, about the time the wild cherries are just beginning, too. Love May!
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May 14, 2011 at 7:39 am
Don’t you love when you can find little hidden treasures like this – tucked away and that probably most people just take for granted as they pass by each day. If only they would take to time to stop and smell the trillium!!!
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May 14, 2011 at 8:14 am
I really enjoy seeing all the beautiful spring flowers from all my blogger friends. They are so colourful, bright and beautiful. We don’t have those flowers here at all and I think it’s because it’s too hot for them.
I love the air after the rain, it’s always refreshing : )
Have a lovely weekend!
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May 14, 2011 at 10:00 am
Beautiful! I’m also amazed at how much greener everything looks after a simple night of rain. And wonderful to see those trillium!
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May 14, 2011 at 11:39 am
Love the trillium and flowering trees!
I try and cut across the quad as often as I can during the school day at this time of year. That 45 second walk outside does wonders, although, sometimes it makes it that much harder to go back in the building.
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May 14, 2011 at 12:20 pm
There is nothing like a little patch of woods to refresh the spirit. {Oh. OK, I’ll tell her.} Or, I am reminded, a nice walk with excellent companions. Everything looks so fresh and lovely–and as P.J. said, SUNNY! I long for sun.
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May 14, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Our ornamental plum that’s close to the house is blooming; the fruit trees and lilacs are getting close. Now, however, we have a cold front moving in with the “s” word being mentioned and I’m grinding my teeth and grumbling. Your photos are lovely!
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May 14, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Mom loved trilliums too 😉
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May 14, 2011 at 9:53 pm
There was so much green, that we started to look for Kermit.
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May 15, 2011 at 7:42 am
Gorgeous! I am sitting at the kitchen table looking at s-n-o-w on the ground. @#$%^&!
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May 21, 2011 at 11:58 am
What?! The state flower? Maybe you meant the state wildflower. Nope. That’s the Dwarf Lake Iris.
Perhaps you didn’t mean the Michigan State flower – rather the State of Confusion, or the State of Affairs as Dawn Would Have It.
Sorry. Michigan’s state flower is the apple blossom.
Of course, if you want to lobby to change that, I’ll join you!
I was at a local park the other day, where the terminal morraine hillsides were plastered with trillium. The next day I went back with my Mom, so she could be dazzled, too!
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