Thursday, May 13, 2010

Dogwood Flowers


Dogwood Flowers
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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

~ Hal Borland

Mayapple Bloom


Mayapple Bloom
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Spotted the first of May 2010. Beautiful dewy white flowers were blooming or soon blooming beneath the umbrella of all the Mayapple plants.