Jack in the Pulpit

Our Jack-in-the-Pulpits are back! Last year we hosted a Cayuga Nature Photographers fieldtrip in our backyard and one of the pictures of our pulpits made it into the native wildflower exhibit this winter! I was sooo proud! We're also very glad to see that most of the pulpits are outside of the goat fence :-) The other pic is of a very nice mushtoom growing in the logs next to our veggie fence.

Is this a wildflower or a weed?!

I do think this is a wild flower, not an escapee, but I still tend to leave it unweeded: I really like the pattern of the leaves!

No idea what these beautiful little wildflowers are, but we really appreciate them blooming so early in spring! The one on the right is about a week later than the pic on the left, by the time the leaves unfold most of the flowers are wilted...

it sure is Spring...

We have so many different colors violets growing on our back field, I love to keep an eye out and see if I can find another one! We even might have wild dog's tooth violets (Erythronium denscanis?), though they sure look different from the violets I'm familiar with... When paging through a bulb catalog I found their picture and recognized them from the many little flowers growing at the edge of our woods and field. Neat, huh :-)