Late Spring Fling

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I know, I’ve missed a couple of deadlines! The first one (May 20th) was my birthday and I got so busy that it got put off, and then June 6th rolled around and I realized I wasn’t ready yet. So here we are, a little late, in the late spring and I finally have some photos ready to share with you! They range from before May 20th to June 7th, so I think they can be fittingly called “Late Spring Fling,” photos. Hope you like them!

Vernal Transition

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Everyone, shall we count to three and breathe a collective sigh of relief? 1… 2… 3… aaaaaaaahhhhhh. GoodBYE Winter! I think we can officially take off the snow tires and pack away the thermal underwear.  We don’t have to look for signs of Spring anymore because you can’t miss them now!  You best believe I’ve been out vigilantly documenting it with the Canon!

Signs of Spring

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Spring is a fickle mistress in Ontario. One day it’s 21°C, the next it’s 2°C. It could snow at any moment. For this reason we don’t rely on the temperatures to tell us summer is coming. It’s better to watch for the first of the Red-Winged Blackbirds, the return of the Turkey Vultures, the Warblers and the Killdear; To listen for the Spring Peepers chirping their chorus and best of all to watch the spring flowers burst from the ground. Crocus and snow drops are usually the first garden flowers. Skunk cabbage, wild ginger, blue cohosh, sharp-lobed hepatica, blood root, early meadow-rue and trout lily are the first of the wild-flowers around here (Carolinian Forest Area).

Here are a few signs of spring I’ve seen in the last week!