Monday, April 21, 2008

Ephemerals



I Iwas lucky to see this patch of Bloodroot. The flowers are so fragile they last only a few days -- even less in the warm weather we’ve had. So I saw this bunch at its absolute zenith.

These fiddleheads (I think they belong to the Cinnamon Fern) are covered in astonishing soft fuzzy jackets. I’ve never seen anything like it. The next day, the fuzz had broken apart and fell like rags off the unfurling fiddlehead.

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