A couple of warmer days has allowed the dandelions to provide spots of yellow on the lawn, but the Marsh Marigolds are adding the yellow in wet road ditches. The blossoms of the marsh marigolds produce both nectar and large amounts of pollen which attract many insects.
Yellow in Marshes
I didn’t pick any dandelions for my usual Mother’s Day flowers since there still isn’t many flowers blooming for the bees to collect pollen from. And with the late spring, the wildflowers are rather sparse yet to take a walk through the woods on mom’s day. Although there are a few violets adding some color in the woods and on my lawn.
Violets for Mom
Today was a nice spring day, but I didn’t have time for a walk in the woods to hunt for wildflowers as I still a lot of limbs that came down over the long winter that needed to be picked up off my lawn. I did spot some Spring Beauties leaves but no blossoms yet so will have to hunt for blooms in upcoming days.
Hunting for Blooms
The Goldenrod Crab Spider could pick either white or yellow blossoms in this patch of wildflowers for its hunting ground.
Yellow and White
To me, lupines used to mean vacation time, as before I only spotted them when I traveled closer to Lake Superior. But now they are planted in a patch just a mile away so don’t need to go very far to see the pretty blossoms.
Lovely Lupines
I don’t live in Virginia, but these pretty flowers are called Virginia Bluebells so I wonder if I can rename them Wisconsin Bluebells. But when they first open up, they are a pink color before the trumpet-like blossom turns to the pretty shade of blue.
Pretty Virginia Bluebells
Normally I don’t see these Wood Anemones at the same time as the white colored bloodroots so the woods have an extra white layer with this weird shortened spring season. But there are a mixture of other flowers adding the blues, yellows, purple, brown and green colors too.
More White in the Woods
With the temperature in the 80s today, it is hard to believe that snow was still on the ground last Monday but already my neighbor mowed his lawn in less than a week later. I did see a lot of white in the woods today between the bloodroots and the wood anemones, which is more pleasurable white to see than snow.
Bloodroot White
Some years there are early wildflowers blooming by the middle of March, but not this year especially since the snow is still way too deep to spot any hepatica blossoms.
Wildflowers Still Missing
There are some areas covered with icy water backing up on the side of the roads where culverts are still frozen. Those same areas are often yellow and green with marsh marigolds in the spring and it is what I rather see than ice.
Seeing Yellow and Green
