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2012 05 10  Just a beautiful spring day around home in Michigan, things are very green.  Here are a few things I saw...

 Squawroot  (Conopholis americana)

 Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)

 Starflower (Trientalis borealis, primrose family) 

 My Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum, Arum Family) Marie gave me these a couple of  years ago.

Just a nice spring day.

Blooming Bloodroot at Riverside Park!

April 12 2011  A fun afternoon at Riverside Park with my Favorite daughter and my favorite dog.  It was a warm and sunny day, Tuesday, grocery shopping was done, the  house pretty much clean.  When it is a nice weather day if you can get outside you should.

As soon as we got on the trail we found Spring Beauty blooming! 

Purple Cress was just coming out.  Then Betsy discovered blooming Bloodroot!

Tilly the Oreo Princess was glad for a refreshing swim.

We walked to the point and back staying to the trail.  Just before getting to the car, Betsy spotted Bird's-eye Speedwell, I know it is a non-native, and it is a lawn weed, but it is one of the prettiest little flowers I have ever seen.  What a color!

  Thank you Betsy and Tilly for that wonderful quest of spring wildflowers!

Adventure Day Without An Adventure?

Marie started out on the 33 mile trip from her house to my house, it had snowed and was still snowing.  She came upon accidents along U.S. 31, which snarled the traffic so she decided to head back north to her home.

She stopped off at a nearby grocery store before heading home and after shopping found the roads had cleared so she completed her trip to my house. 

We visited our "sweet" sister, Sugar, in Spring Lake.  That's always nice.  Then Marie was starving apparently so we headed to Grand Haven for fries and a shake.  Nope nothing yet that you can call an adventure.

Get the best French Fries in Grand Haven here.

Driving south into Grand Haven.

We headed for my house and worked on our "Parks and Places" list.  Just some random list I start in 2006 when we started going on, mostly weekly, wildflower outings.  More on this list next time.  (Oh, suspense!)

We did walk here around the woods loop, we saw trees, snow, and more snow, that's winter. 

In about two months, maybe a bit more we will see this!