...Star flowers that is, lighting up the forest floor.

Also, this is the time of year for for bunchberry, the earliest anemones, and brave lady slippers.

Also, horseflies. The black-flies are gone, and the mosquitoes have been insignificant (thanks to the drought), but the deer-flies are flying. Horse/deer-flies like sun and attack from above. So, a good hat is a necessity, and shade is a friend.

For us...a day of puttering and recreation: poison ivy control, gardening, truck washing, a fine sail on the Windrider, and a walk through the woods from Murray and Elaine's to here. Sippy-cups on the deck, then a fine stir-fry, and then an episode of Suits.

All we could possibly ask for is rain.