A woman was tending her front garden as the vicar approached. He paused, leaned over the front wall and and said to her, "Isn't it wonderful what God can do in a garden?"
The woman responded, "You should have seen it when He had it all to himself."
Armed with a camera I went walking through the woodlands near our home. I felt it was a good time to take pictures, since the trilliums were blooming.
I know people grow these in their garden, but since I was a young child I have had a kind of built-in reverence for this flower, the provincial flower of Ontario. We were taught not to pick them or damage them. Because it sank in at such an early age, I can't seem to shake that feeling that the flower is not to be touched.
I took photographs, though.
Elsewhere on my walk I found a smallish patch of some flowers that look like cranesbill. Does cranesbill grow wild in southern Ontario woodlands? Or did this escape from someone's garden long ago? Or is it not cranesbill at all, but something else? I wish I knew. [EDIT: I found web sites that state that cranesbill does grow wild in Southern Ontario.]
(And speaking of crane's bill, I was able to snap a (not very good) picture of a blue heron in a tree.)
Finally, I wanted to provide an illustration of how invasive garlic mustard is. It's everywhere along the path I was walking. The city was doing some maintenance, mowing the sides of the path, and I figured out where the name comes from. The delicious (if you like salads and Italian cooking) scent of garlic was everywhere.
6 comments:
i grew up spending summers at my parents cottage in the muskokas, i love trilliums, only ever picked them once, by mistake. my neighbor has some planted in her backyard, i always think of the cottage when i see them in bloom.
I had to come check out your trillia/ums (hee!) when you mentioned you had posted some too. I LOVE them! They are probably my favorite wildflower and I am thrilled every spring to think it's almost trillium time. And my poor children... I have such reverence for the trillium that the kids are probably scarred for life just for thinking of picking one!
Eclectic, I guess I didn't manage to avoid the plural after all, just decided to add the 's' and be damned. I did really think about whether it should be "trillia" though. Thanks for stopping by!
I love trillium! It is in bloom here in the Northeastern US also.
I adore the brilliant greens that come from local forest walks, When we moved to Barrie from Mississauga, I had to get used to the parks kept by god instead of the recs department. I love all the trilliums in bloom, thanks Karen for these photos!! When I took the pupheads for a walk the other day through the trees at the end of the street I was saddened for not bringing my camera. You captured that beauty wonderfully.
Such a peaceful retreat! I'm with you thinking that they look like cranesbill, perhaps a guide to wildflowers book might help if they are in fact not as they appear.
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