We drove to the Warren Woods for a walk. This is the virgin beech forest where trillium blooms riotously every spring. The Galien River snakes through the woods, flooding its low-lying parts and receiving the run off that will make the trillium bloom. Then, when the trees are in leaf, the surface of the water will reflect the green. Now, though, the woods are bare, and the river reflects the grey bark of the trees, and the sky, which is clear and a dazzling, deep, violet-tinged blue.
Harley says
I’ve been there! It’s a very special place and, as you mentioned, the trillium is just spectacular in late April and early May. Many other types of most un-usual flowers bloom at that time as well. . . . Well worth the drive to get there! I strongly encourage those of you reading this to check out the website on The Warren Woods. . . .By the by, if one gets really, really lucky the very rare cardinal flower grows in small numbers only near the river bank in late summer; it likes “wet feet,” as does trillium (which is also a rare flower), which almost always grows on slopes where the rainwater runs.