It was 39 degrees, the ground was snow covered in places.
This south facing hill along the Kalamazoo River was just plain brown.
We saw green and purple hepatica leaves from last spring, and we found a few new tiny buds. We took our time walking here, looking closely for an early glimpse of spring...
It was a nice enough day, cool with sunshine and blue sky. We are just too early to find this favorite spring ephemeral blooming, we weren't expecting anything to be blooming yet.
Then Marie calls out, hmm, what did she see? She had found it! The one and only Round Lobed Hepatica blooming on this day! It was nestled in a bed of green moss, so perfect! Unbelievable!
We also saw....
We stopped at Happy Boots to take a peek at Skunk Cabbage.
Next time a different kind of adventure from our trip to Moab, Utah!
I've seen exactly two hepatica blossoms in my life. They grow here but they're extremely hard to find.
ReplyDeleteYour skunk cabbages are ahead of ours!
Happy spring!
Yay!! spring is here finally. I have a very similar hepatica hill facing the river that I go to. Won’t be long before I head there.
ReplyDeleteHepatica is a favorite of mine. As a kid we called them Mayflowers, and they grew all over the lawn and in the woods. Now I live three miles from where I grew up but in our woods here, there are no hepatica except for the ones I have planted. I have always wondered why that is.
ReplyDeleteSkunk Cabbage is just getting going here. The lone hepatica blooming was a surprise!
Happy Spring to you!
Yes, Spring. The one hepatica blooming was way ahead of its time. Last year we went to Hepatica Hill on April 20 2018, and we saw lots of blooming hepatica that day. So we have time I think before those hepatica really get blooming. They are a favorite for sure.
ReplyDeleteHappy Spring!