2/6: the first of the season

I just saw the first wildflowers of this year's spring! (Although winter's not completely over, winter and spring overlap for weeks and weeks in Arkansas.) I'll have to wait until I go home this evening to look up the name of the wildflower I saw, but it was small, delicate, and very blue.

Added later: I looked up the flower in my Petersen's Guide, and I think it's a speedwell. The picture below doesn't show the exact flowers I saw today (I didn't have my camera handy when I was walking across campus this morning and spotted them), but I took this picture of the same kind of flower a couple of springs ago as I was walking along Tucker Creek and availed myself of the camera feature on my cell-phone.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/05/2009

    rising late in the morning, or early in the afternoon and missing those still nite time hrs which extend into 11 a.m. for me

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  2. Anonymous2/06/2009

    Oh, wow, green! It is still all white where I am. What a joy it will be when I see little flowers again.

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  3. RR2/07/2009

    The green is still mixed in with a good deal of brown, but today I saw even more wildflowers....

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