Pearson Falls trip - part one

   These photos were taken on April 27, 2022

Though it's high pollen season, it had rained a few days before, so the new green leaves just vibrated with brightness!

Helen carried her flower i.d. book, and thus named everything we saw. Surprisingly late in wild flower season there were plenty of beauties to see. (When the leaves are on the trees, there are few wild flowers in bloom.)

White rhododendron were blooming in a few places...no purple ones though!

A Cock Robin Trillium

We walked along a trail going up while the cascades of water came down the steep ravine.

This white trillium was the only white one we saw, and it was growing right next to the trail...with huge leaves!

There were fresh wood shavings along the path while the rest of it was stone steps. Not too hard to climb, and lots of railings when the ground sloped away from the trail steeply.

There's a tiny red nubbin of a flower that Helen's book identified...mainly by the pretty leaves.

Then we saw the first Jack in the Pulpit flower. Here's an upside down angle looking back towards my own feet to try to see the curve of the flower.

Looking straight down doesn't do it justice.

A very sturdy bridge, mostly stone, in two sections, took us to the other side of the stream.

But we did see more!

Tomorrow folks...

Today's quote:

Let us be gentle to each other this brief time,

For we shall die in exile far from home,

Where even the flowers can no longer save.

Only the living are healed by love.

May Sarton