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it never fails
[OT from cottage renovations]
I really should know better than to head out in search of some particular image. it's a sure-fire preventative.
the East Woods are right across the road out back but I don't tend to go there very often.
by now there should be some early bloodroot in bloom, so I wandered into the Grove's Forest Reserve to see if any could be found.
of course not.
what I did find was that the understory growth seems to have been given over to the dreaded rosa multiflora. dealing with it is not likely to be within the scope of volunteer effort and budget available to the Grove. too bad the many deer can't be trained to eat the stuff but, alas, they amble past it all the time on their way to our gardens.
(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)
East woods
the good news is that in many places there are stands of daffodils, just waiting to bloom. after the next few days' snow, one presumes.
daffodil shoots
tramping through the cold mud used up much of the afternoon, more of it than I had intended. but as the late light slanted down it passed through this fallen leaf and I was pleased to have happened by at the right moment to catch it. the bloodroot is still there, somewhere, and travel schedule permitting I'm hoping to find it.