Smitten and Distracted

I am smitten.

It happens every spring.

It's wildflowers.

And

Trilliums in particular.

They bloom here around Memorial Day, give or take a few weeks,

and

then they only live for about a week and die.

But while they are here,

they are glorious.

We were heading for a wedding late May and I spied
some on the side of the road.

I wanted to stop and get some photos, but my husband didn't think
it a good idea to hike up my long skirt to climb over the grass on a public highway in my heels to do so.
(Silly man).

But, I honored his opinion and waited until the next day to go out
to our favorite place in the woods
to capture some shots of them.

We found a whole entire hillside of them!:

I just love looking at flowers from all different angles:

Some even had some wild forget-me-nots

beside them too!:

Then I spied a beautiful light blue butterfly

flitting all over.

I must have chased him for 5 minutes and he would land

but with his wings CLOSED.

I finally captured one of him with his wings

partially open and on a wild strawberry blossom:

Now...

where WAS I?

Oh yeah..

the trilliums...

(See? Didn't I tell you I was distracted from all of Nature's wildflower beauty?)

Do you SEE why Trilliums are one of my favorite wildflower?

They are protected in Michigan and cannot be picked or transplanted:

And then the apple blossoms

came out.

Oh.

My.

And we had a flock of Bohemian Waxwings

fly into our yard and start eating the blossoms with flurry!:

Where was I (again??)

Oh,  yes...

the Trilliums!:

You can see why I get distracted

with our U.P. Spring.

Everywhere you look, there are gorgeous wildflowers

and birds and blossoms.

I wanted to get back out to take more Trillium photos and we got a few weeks straight of rain!

So it's a good thing I got out there that ONE day.

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Happy 4th of July everyone!
Hope you are having a wonderful holiday filled with family and fun!