WILDFLOWERS AT HOME ( part 2 )

WOOD ANEMONIE

These tiny white flowers are common along the edges of the woods and the yard.  They must like at least partial shade and bloom at the same time as May flowers.  The flowers themselves, although always white in color, look very similar to the May flower.  It is easy to identify them by the shape of the leaves.

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ADDER’S TONGUE or YELLOW TROUT LILLY

Before these flowers bloom, you will see the adder’s tongue leaves, one at a time, all over in the edges of the woods and in the yard.  A week or two later, the flowers are blooming.  There is also a white trout lily but I’ve never seen one in our woods at home.

FROM ANOTHER TIME

 I found you glistening in the sand

Lying beside many other rocks today

But you stood out amid the rest

So perfectly shaped, as if on display.

If you could talk I’d listen all day.

To stories about the one who made you

The life they lived and the games they played

The struggles they had just to get them through.

How long did it take to create you and

What kind of game were you supposed to kill?

How long ago did your crafter live,

And did you succeed or did you fail?

I should have let you stay where you were

Alone in the sand, amid the other rocks

But I plucked you up, in my pocket you went

For I could not resist the wonder you brought.

I’ll write a note and jot down the date

And the spot where I found you today

And hope you’ll bring me good luck, arrowhead,

I’m sure glad you came my way.