Friends Beth & Chuck recently hiked through the Rock House area to enjoy spring wildflowers. They report that trillium, jack-in-th-pulpit, Dutchman’s-breeches and many others are on full display. I’ll have to get over there.

In the meantime, I hiked into the woods behind our house (same woods our Marsh Hollow cabin is near) and found the following beauties today:

• Bluets
• Common blue violet
• Cut-leaved toothwort
• Golden ragwort
• Hispid buttercup
• May-apple (not blooming yet, but getting ready)
• Poor man’s pepper
• Rue anemone
• Smooth phlox
• Smooth yellow violet
• Spring beauty
• Sweet white violet
• White trillium

I can only hope I got the names right because I’m using the 1968 edition of A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. Things can change in that amount of time.