Trillium

It is a cool, wet spring. The forests awash in soft greens and muted browns. Speckled throughout the understory with the white blossoms of trillium flowers (Trillium grandiflorum).

These distinct three pronged flowers are a common spring ephemeral of moist hardwoods stretching between the southern Appalachians to the Great Lakes and Northern Quebec.

They can take 17 years to mature. Some of them may be older than I am. Their wisdom stored in deep roots in the soil. Unfurled each spring they capture your eye and imagination.