Went for a walk in some woods out past Almonte. "Normally" lots of flowers are starting to come into full bloom in the first week of May, but this year is proving to be the exception. Even most of the early ones (e.g. spring beauties, hepatica, trout lily) had few blossoms.
Last year there seemed to be many more red trilliums than normal, this year is shaping up to be the year of white trillium. I don't recall seeing so many white trillium plants and buds before.
(I used a mixture of lens - macro, wide angle and telephoto - rather than all macro lens shots. Also flash was used a few times to try to provide different "looks".)
A bud just starting to emerge
Wide angle shot of three white trilliums in a patch of many, many more.
I did find one red trillium in bud
Leatherwood bushes were starting to produce their blossoms.
The blue cohosh, that starts out as gnarled looking purple stem, was already a foot high and some of the flowers were finishing.
Hepatica frequently comes in blue shades, but what few flowers that were out, were white,
A very few trout lilies had started to spread their petals, most were still tightly closed.
Some of the sedge grass was in bloom.
For whatever reason I am always interested in how leeks and sometimes trilliums, seem to come up in the middle of a leaf and held "captive".
A fungus aptly named "spring beauty rust", seemed to be on many of the small spring beauty flowering plants.
