new ones

Tulips appearing

White Trillium shows up around Mothers Day, right on time.

Trout Lily, the leaves are speckled, like a trout.

Chelsea Morning Vt. style

sun rising
grass growing
birds singing
creek sighing
clouds flying

Chelsea Morning Vermont style

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning and the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too
And the sun poured in like butterscotch, and stuck to all my senses
Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses.

Chelsea Morning
Joni Mitchell

yesterday

Yesterday was sunny with a high of 70 degrees. Driving in a tee shirt with the windows open for the first time in a long time. Marsh marigolds appearing. Woods Market open, flowers only. Sound of lawnmowers. Smell of smoke from burning leaves.

In the dim first light
I watch the waves
from a departing boat.
Shinkei

In bloom

Magnolia trees that memorialize my brother and mother are in bloom at the Vermont Zen Center.

Shad trees also blossoming throughout the state.

blue

blue cohosh

bluets

leafing out

Trees are leafing out. The willows come first. They are also the last to lose their leaves in the fall.

appearing

Bloodroot and Round Leaf Yellow Violet appearing.

These are a couple of early entries in the spring ephemeral season. Bloodroot seems to favor rocky areas and old stone walls. Maybe the rocks provide some warmth to them in the month of April. Yellow Violet? Kind of an oxymoron.