ferns unfurl like scrolls

I was home just long enough to catch the fiddleheads before they were all knee-high and mostly unfurled. Amen for small victories. I would have been very sad had I messed my favorite micro-season of all. Note to self: Don’t travel in May if you don’t have to. Sixty-one years old and still learning.

fiddlehead ostrich ferns

here there and everywhere

Yesterday I was in Florida. Today I am at home. Tomorrow I go to Denver. I am just swinging by here.

P.S. I was in Florida to do a corporate speaking/workshop event. In Denver, I am giving a talk at a trade show where a a collection of STILL wallpapers will be introduced.

nature’s confetti

When you are reading this I will be flying back from doing a workshop for a corporate client in Florida. When I do these workshops I often bring a bag or two of dried botanicals with me for the workshop participants to play with while I talk. By the end of the workshop, this confetti is often all that will be left behind. But even that is gorgeous. Nature does it best.

crushed dried botanical bits

leaf out!

After Monday’s soaking rain, most of the trees have now had bud burst and early leaf out. Except the oaks of course. Those guys always wait to go last. Their such pikers.

bud burst and baby maple leaves

tight in the bud

This vine looks dead for intents and purposes, but the those new spring buds give it away. A few feet further down this vine, the buds had already burst and were leafing out showing tiny grape clusters. But I liked the tendrils better on this section. You know how I am about tendrils.

wild grapevine with old tendrils and new buds

P.S. Happy May Day everyone! Make a posie and put it on your neighbors doorstep.