Trillium

This blushing flower is one of several blooms under the trees in Potato Creek State Park.

Red Admirals

There has been a massive butterfly hatch in northern Indiana of Red Admirals. Hundreds are fluttering through the woods among the wildflowers and flowering bushes. Every step you take brings up more and more butterflies. Truly magnificent!  

A Daisy

Dancing Among the Blossomed Trees

THE BIRDS their love-notes warble
Among the blossomed trees;
The flowers are sighing forth their sweets
To wooing honey-bees;
The glad brook o’er a pebbly floor
Goes dancing on its way,—
But not a thing is so like spring
As happy Alice Ray.


Alice Ray by Sarah Josepha Hale

The Greening

Who needs flowers when bright, dewy leaves are unfolding this morning?

Oh...that Pollen!

This bee just couldn't get enough of this dandelion! He appeared to be hunkering down for the night and just loving it with his face buried in the center.

Mystery

After years of hiking and walking daily in Indiana, I'm still surprised every now and then.

I've been watching the same puddles raise tiny frogs for several years and was surprised this year by thousands of these critters that have joined the tadpoles in the puddles this year.

I'm guessing that they are some type of aquatic beetle larvae. But I've never seen so many and never in the puddles with the tadpoles.