Today was beautiful... sunny and warm... and things are bursting out everywhere on the bluff. Spring has SPRUNG! I climbed down under the bluff outside our back door and snapped these pictures. It is amazing to me how the plants and delicate little flowers can grow out of those massive rocks. And the variety of ferns we have growing on this cliffside is astounding!
Back on top of the ridge, I turned and started down the road paralleling Mossy Bluff Trail and the Buckeye Trail, and I found amazing specimens of the buckeye tree in various stages of growth, depending on how much direct sunlight each received. Greg said some of the leaves looked like marijuana plants, but I assure you, they are from the buckeye tree!
And then there is the Serviceberry Tree... bursting with blooms all along the hillsides. The buds have fuzzy pink petals as they unfurl, and then they open into beautiful white blossoms that are really quite large. These trees are making our hillsides white these days, and they remind us that the dogwoods can't be far behind!
Back on top of the ridge, I turned and started down the road paralleling Mossy Bluff Trail and the Buckeye Trail, and I found amazing specimens of the buckeye tree in various stages of growth, depending on how much direct sunlight each received. Greg said some of the leaves looked like marijuana plants, but I assure you, they are from the buckeye tree!
And then there is the Serviceberry Tree... bursting with blooms all along the hillsides. The buds have fuzzy pink petals as they unfurl, and then they open into beautiful white blossoms that are really quite large. These trees are making our hillsides white these days, and they remind us that the dogwoods can't be far behind!
