Brrr-mont.

5-2-12 VERMONT: We had an uneventful trip north through the rain in NJ and NY. Vermont is quite wet, after being very dry in April. There are puddles in the pasture, the area above the pond is a swamp.

Today is dark, overcast, damp, windy, in one word—raw. The trees are beginning to leaf out. The conditions are seasonal, unlike April which was so warm.

In bloom: star magnolia, forsythia, quince, service berry, daffodil, primrose, blood root, red trillium, pulmonaria, hellebore, dandelion, wild strawberry, wild ginger, vinca, viola, packysandra, lamium-purple and pink.

Hellebore, near the ground and hard to see.

Wild Ginger, on the ground and really hard to see. Who pollinates these flowers?