As Spring has progressed, I have been able to observe a whole host of different plant, tree, and fern specimens in different stages of bloom.  The Spring wildflowers were particularly beautiful during our mid-April jaunt in Niquette Bay State Park.

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) in Full Bloom

Beautiful colors of Hepatica

Sulphur Yellow buds of the Bitternut Hickory (Carya cordiformis)!

Ginger Growing Wild

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Red Trillium; Stinking Benjamin (Trillium erectum)

Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)

Where bloodroot gets its name from.

Sessile bellwort; wild oats (Uvularia sessilifolia)

Large-flower trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

Common blue violet (Viola sororia)

Early meadow-rue (Thalictrum dioicum)

Flowering bloodroot.

Yellow-spotted Salamander (Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus)

White birch (Betula papyrifera) 'bleeding' sap 

Unidentified mushroom still standing from the previous year.

Black bears leaving their mark on this American beech (Fagus grandifolia).