After the brutal cold weather a couple of weeks ago, it appears that spring is near. The first few days of March were limited to photographing birds as wildflowers had not started blooming in the usual nearby places.

On Sunday, March 9, 2025, the common trio of Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, and American Goldfinches were the only species observed.

And then on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, I hiked (more like strolled) the Cedar Creek Trail with good friend Dan with the objective of finding wildflowers. Fortunately, Dan had been out previously, and knew their locations. Both live and dead trees hosted fungi—mostly Turkey Tail.

And the forest floor had sparse blooms of Spring Beauties and Blood Root wildflowers, and a beautiful Cutleaf Toothwort. 

Wildflowers are blooming late this year. In fact, a look back at photographs of wildflowers from previous springs, it appears that Spring 2025 is about 2 weeks later than usual.

We continue to play pickleball and golf, and Kay attends to her social activities. And now that basketball is finished for the school year, we have begun traveling to central Arkansas to watch Ridge play school soccer, Next fall, Harper will be playing softball, and we plan to attend as many of her games as we can.