These are the remains of winter on our hillside.
The anemone-like leaves of the bitterroot. It won’t bloom for months and by then the leaves will have disappeared.
Lichen on a piece of thin bark
A tiny buckwheat next to an immense ponderosa pine cone
More lichen. They are bright and fresh this time of year.
Maybe from a woodpecker
Lots of little piles of fertilizer
Does it seem like there was an especially good ponderosa pine cone crop? The White-winged and Red Crossbills have been busy opening them.
Just one of the deer that didn’t make it through the winter
Remains of an earlier time
This was probably from one of last year’s fawns
Sprouts!
More subtle lichens on a rock
One of last fall’s mushrooms survived the winter.
These tiny flowers seem to be growing out of moss
Back at home, the bees were flying again.
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