What a great day to see the awakening of spring ephemerals! The threat of rain did not encourage 6 naturalists – the weather was cool with only an occasional mist. 

There were masses of Sweet Betsy Trillium in their usual maroon dress, but there were some exceptions of tan, green and yellow. We were greeted by masses of Green and Gold plants with their yellow flowers. Foam Flowers were in various stages of developing and Mayapples carpeted the forest floor as we neared the falls. Canada and Sweet White Violets were present as was Rue Anemone. We saw a couple of Bloodroots with most of them having already gone to seed. Yellowroot with its tiny maroon flowers was in abundance in the early portion of the walk. There was also some Blue Cohosh in bloom, the Black Cohosh we found will be flowering later. We missed the flowering of Liverwort, nuts.