Woodland Wildflowers

Yesterday afternoon, I went on a short hike at the Boundary Waters Park in Douglasville, Georgia, about twenty minutes northeast, by car, from my home.  The red trail there leads up and down hills (quite steeply in places), through a mature deciduous forest.  On my walk, I was delighted to discover several early spring wildflowers:  violets in abundance along the floodplains of streams, and rue anemone, cutleaf toothwort, and hepatica blooming on the forested slopes.  I also saw a wild turkey dash across the path in front of me, but he (or she) was far too quick for my camera.  Pictured below are a violet and rue anemone (top row) and cutleaf toothwort and hepatica (bottom row).  What lovely discoveries on a mild early spring day!