A heat wave is bringing out the leaves! The wild flowering dogwood, not real common in our woods, are coming out. Redbud, very rare in our woods, are also blooming. This is the peak time for the beautiful jack-in-the-pulpit. We saw all of the flowers below in Kirtland, Ohio's Penitentiary Glenn Metropark:
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| It's true! Nature's First Green Is Gold! |
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Penitentiary Glenn |
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| Bluebells, Penitentiary Glenn |
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| Dogwood |
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| Flowering crabapple |
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| Redbud |
Spring doesn't last long. Get out into it now and keep your eyes open! As Robert Frost wrote, "Nothing gold can stay."
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