Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
For many people this is, I realize, appealing. But let’s look beyond the lurid gaudiness to the more subtle spring ephemerals down on the forest floor. 
Like bloodroot.
And spring beauties.
And trout lilies. (Plus some mayapple.)
All on the grounds of the Morris Arboretum or nearby Wissahickon Valley Park.
awsome photography
the more subtle, the better.
Absolutely beautiful
I miss seeing them at the native flora section in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden – closed for construction. That’s my favorite section, and season, at the BBG.
Gotta love trout lilies. So easily overlooked and so ephemeral.
We don’t get those lovely trout lilies out here in the Pacific Northwest….a beautiful coloration. Instead we have other yellow and white lilies pop up where the snow has just melted, Avalanche Lilies, Fawn Lilies, etc.
Well, I bet those are delightful, too!
These trout lilies, Erythronium americium, are also known as Yellow Trout-lily, American Trout-lily, Eastern Trout-lily, Yellow Dogtooth Violet, & Adder’s Tongue. They grow in colonial patches, sometimes there a lots of non-flowering specimens.
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