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Flowers in the Woods

5/6/2014

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Miki came along to the woods last night, to check out all the early spring wildflowers. 
One of my favourite early spring woodlands wildflowers is the yellow trout lily. 
Miki loves them too, and picked a small bouquet....
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Right now the trees are all still bare, allowing the light in to the forest floor, where
 if you look closely, there's all kinds of  plants and wildflowers popping up through the 
fallen leaves. There's the delicate hepatica which is almost finished, while bloodroot 
and trout lilies are in full bloom, and the trillium buds are just starting to open. 
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Hepatica
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Trout Lily
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Trillium
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Bloodroot
 One of my earliest childhood memories is of the lovely yellow trout lilies.
We had just immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands to a large dairy farm on Manitoulin Island, a large island up north in Lake Huron.  It was spring, and I had just turned five. My Dad was out all day walking the fields as a cowhand, and my Mom was busy cleaning house and watching my baby brother. There was a small woods at the top of the driveway, and I remember exploring those woods with my little sister, and picking bouquets of these lovely yellow flowers. I was obviously into flowers at a very young age, as several other memories of that farm (where we lived for less than half a year) centre around wildflowers - the blue flags along the stream out front, and wild strawberries in the pastures.  I don't know what it is about the trout lilies, what makes them so special, but to this day they remind me of the awesome wonder of nature to a young child.

Miki likes them too...
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Along with the patches of trout lily, the woods are also full of trilliums, the buds just 
starting to open.  In another day or two, the forest floor will be a sea of white trilliums....
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6 Comments
Inma
5/6/2014 12:18:10 am

Thank you for showing the flowers that grow where you live. They bring me also all sort of memories. When I was a child I also used to pick bouquets of wild flowers, now I live in a big city and miss the contact with nature. Miki looks very pretty in the woods.

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Martha
5/6/2014 01:07:53 am

I'm lucky we live on the edge of a city right beside a designated greenbelt, so nature is very close.

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Sharon
5/6/2014 02:58:12 am

Martha,
Your photos are outstanding and I love the stories that bring your dolls to life. I happen to be on Ebay today and came across two beautiful outfits that you had made in the past that are up for auction. "Saffron" and Think of me"
I know your works of art are highly sought after and thought your patrons might want to know.

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Charie Wilson
5/6/2014 09:32:30 am

Martha I had no idea you grew up so close to me when I was a child I lived in Espanola a hop skip and a jump from Manitoulin Island I spent many summer fishing their and go back and visit every summer.
Hugs Charie

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Martha
5/7/2014 03:04:45 am

I didn't actually grow up there. We only lived on Manitoulin for a few months, then moved to Hamilton.

I do love the Kilarney area, and the La Cloche mountains around Espanola.

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Jane
5/6/2014 04:57:45 pm

Oh how lovely to see Miki dressed in this outfit again, it is one of my favourites for her.

And thank you so much for the peep back into your childhood too; these are wild flowers I am unfamiliar with, so it is lovely to see them in close up here.

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