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New Flowers!

Yellow Lilies!
Vivid yellow

Today we walked at Morden Colliery Park.  It was grey with a light drizzle – lovely walking weather.  The paths were edged in brilliant green and the tree branches were greening up overhead!  The side paths looked like fairy lanes!  Such an alive walk!

We saw two new (to us) flowers!  The most exciting were yellow lilies, a member of the Fawn Lily family, but with larger leaves and a more clustered growth pattern.  Curly Lilies have all separate leaves and stems, no clumping; the yellow lilies all seemed to grow in clumps or clusters.  In 20 years of walking around Nanaimo I have never seen the yellow lilies!  Today our timing was perfect!

It was a perfect walk in other ways as well – so many flowers were coming into bloom or just finishing their season!

Pacific Bleeding Hearts are carpeting the surrounding forest floor!
Hookers Fairy Bell

We saw lots of Pacific Bleeding Heart, Trilliums in all colours – pure white to deep purple.  I don’t often see so many perfect “old” trilliums!  And we saw another new flower.  This one is called Hookers Fairy Bell.  It is another small white flower, perfectly beautiful!

I hope that you enjoy the view!

Happy Walking

Lynette

I am all out….

Just about to open up!

…of Superlatives up to the job of describing the Curly Lilies, also known by their common name Fawn Lilies!

Perfect Trilliums

I thought that I had missed seeing them this year.  I have not been getting out walking as much because of a bum knee and the weather really hasn’t been conducive to walking and taking pictures – how many pictures of rain can one camera take!  I know I have taken too many!  LOL!

Today has been gorgeous – clear blue skies and a balmy 11 or 12 degrees Celsius!  So we went to the Canyon, always one of my favourite places to walk.

And there were Curly Lilies, fields of them under the trees, bunches of delicate, elegant white blooms with brilliant yellow centers dancing in the light breeze.  They were beautiful.

It is Spring!

There are wild Dogwood blooms, perfect Trilliums with the petal, sepal and leaves placed just so, tiny yellow violet blooms, hot pink salmon berry blooms and the multiple pink blooms of the red flowering currant!  One of the more curious items I saw today was a tree fungus, blushing a delicate pink, something I have never seen before!  All of these I found on my walk today!

Ground Covering Curly Lilies

I hope that you enjoy the blooms as much as I did!

Happy Viewing

Lynette