Wildflowers

We took an afternoon walk yesterday to see how a familiar preserve looked in the sun. Here’s a new flower — with the not-so-catchy name “narrow-leaved blue-eyed grass”:

It’s only about a half an inch across, but it was neat to see a new adornment on the ground. Here’s a closer look:

A veery was singing in the distance, which my daughter tried without success to see. Oven birds, a house wren, robins and cardinals provided musical accompaniment. A few other flowers we saw:

There were mosses a-plenty…

As well as some favorite spots to think.

A couple of oven birds tried hard to lead us away from what must have been their nest site. It would have been amazing to see an oven bird nest, but we settled for watching the birds for a few minutes, then moving on to give them some peace.

Not only did we observe; we were observed:

On the whole it was a lovely stroll.