Almost the moment the snow is gone, little shoots of the toughest wildflowers and perennials start growing. I'm not sure if this is a wild columbine from past saved seeds collected in the wild, or a nursery grown one. I'll find out as it grows.

Either way, I love them all and appreciate their toughness.

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Lovely wild crocus (Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida), first flower of spring often blooms by Mother's Day. Even though Mother's Day was fairly late this year, the spring crocuses were later still.

First showing of these fuzzy beauties often get hit by the season's last snowfall. Hopefully not this year.

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Lovely strings such as this had me thinking we were in for a change in the weather, perhaps with snow or rain.

Sure enough by next morning it was overcast, but with no precipitation. Afternoon returned to bright sunny spring weather.

No precipitation now for the last 14 days.

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Greening up in the lowlands of my valley at the foot of the Cathedrals, the mountains still retain vestiges of snowy freshness.

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Ice has finally dropped out and washed out of Yerrick Crick, though snow remains along it's flood channel areas.

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