We made one more effort to find the pale pasque flowers in bloom. We found more leaves, but no blooms and now we’re sure that there won’t be any flowers this year, either. We should’ve seen at least some indication of a stem or a bud or something, but there really wasn’t anything like that. Something bad has happened in this location… from hundreds of individuals 15 years ago to just a handful now.

But one rarity that is a thriving is the bird’s eye primrose. The season is a bit early for them, there were some already in bloom but most of the plants only had tiny buds.

Later in the afternoon the rain came in but didn’t stay for long so I grabbed the camera and searched for some water drops in the forest. I’m sure there were many more but the ones that I was interested in were attached to the wood sorrel… complete with OOF grasses that follow the shape of the flowers. I think I’m done with the wood sorrel this year, gotta find something else tomorrow!