We started the year dry, and the weather patterns are so all-over-the-place that it’s worth stopping to appreciate the rain.
It’s a secret—don’t tell anyone—but almost as often as not, morels come up in this yard. This year a few appeared and disappeared in the first week of May.
That morel was right out in plain view for a change, but wild ginger flowers are never in plain view. Wild ginger is ant-pollinated, so the flowers are right where the ants can reach them and get a treat for their troubles.
On the other hand, nannyberry flowers are always in plain view, but they embody the word windblown when they are stripped off the bushes by high wind in a driving rainstorm. They are tiny five-petaled flowers, but the petals and stamens are all fused. The flopped-over long stamens add a note of hilarity to me.
It rains just enough to keep the grass green and to keep me hoping that we won’t go into a drought too early in the summer.