It was great to be into the woods my friend Richard Ware again yesterday. We had decided to ride out to Blacks Bluff and do a little spring botanizing along the road at the little ecological jewel right here in town nearly. We thought we might find a toothwort or some other early wildflowers in bloom. But Tom Spring has been very lazy this year. He has been tardy with his buckets of bright paint for the spring ephemerals. There were just no significant blooms to be found here in the last half of February.
So we didn't stay long. BUT I'll post a few pictures anyway to memorialize a very pleasant visit with this friend of over sixty years.
