The last day of Prep Scouts was a field trip to celebrate Earth Day. We went to one of the most lovely places in our area, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. Bowman’s Hill is an outdoor museum of Mother's Nature's wild-growing plants and it is a magical, lovely place. The flowers and plants that can be seen at this time of year are called ephemerals because they can only bloom when there is warmth in the air and the plants can soak in the sunlight because the trees that grow above them have not yet leafed and blocked out the sunlight. There were May apples, one of my favorite plants.
There were trilliums getting ready to bloom.
We saw bloodroot flowers and ferns just emerging alongside the bluebells and poppies.
There were fields and fields of bluebells alongside yellow celandine poppy flowers, so lovely they took your breath away.
Wildflowers in early Spring is guaranteed to charm even the most jaded of observers. Of course, middle schoolers are not the least bit jaded and they enjoyed the beauty that we saw.
We stopped in the gazebo to make a group photo. Most of them held still long enough to have their picture made.
Wildflowers in April....that’s happy!
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