Before the rain

Hellebore


Columbine leaves unfurling


Hellebore seedpods. Reminds me of some kind of carnivorous plant, eating a dead leaf (OK, I confess—I staged it).


Bloodroot. I'm obsessed with stamens.


Purple dead-nettle. Beautiful, but greedy, weed.


Toad trillium. Got a bunch of these on a plant rescue.

Species tulip

Redbud

Pear blossoms

Taraxacum officinale

Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.

—Walt Whitman

Up and out, in the yard

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
March 9, 2009


Trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
March 10, 2009


Narcissus 'Tet a Tete'
February 27, 2009


"Ugly camellia"
March 2, 2009

Go team!