Maybe?

Despite the freezing rain in the forecast for this afternoon, I have hope that perhaps we are actually for-real into spring now. The weekend is supposed to be sunny and warm; time to start visiting the forests to try and find the early-blooming wildflowers.

Spring ephemerals are kind of awesome, when you think about it. It's this entire group of plants that have all evolved to sprout, flower, and produce seed in the tiny window of time between when the snow melts and the tree canopy closes in. Once the light is gone from the understory, a lot of them will die back completely and you'd never even know they were there. Trilliums are probably the most famous around here, but there are so many others.

Green is coming. I can't wait.