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With little time to post, I am sharing this woodland treat.  The ladyslipper orchid appears in May for just a week or so and they are rare enough that they always make me feel like a great privilege has been bestowed whenever I find them in the woods along the drive.  There are many with no flowers, just blind leaves and I am hopeful that they will someday bloom.  Cypripedium acaule is the name and they really don’t look like a slipper to me but they are fascinating and delicate with that veining in the flower.  

The other specialty bloom is in the garden and is the yellow tree peony which is clear and bright and has three flowers this year.  Three! 

This last image is of the emerging leaves of the catalpa tree.  It speaks to me of promise.