May 08, 2006
Signs of spring

We went to Mt. Apatite in Auburn yesterday to do some hiking and try our hand at crystal and mineral mining at a small quarry there. It turned out that we found plenty of other gems.

Spring

Spring

Spring
OK, what is this? It looked a lot like lettuce to me but I doubted that's what it was in the middle of the woods.

Spring
Fiddlehead season is almost here.

Spring
There were tons of tadpoles in the little pond we found.

Spring
Mama frog?

Posted by Wendy Almeida at 10:14 AM
Comments

Hi Wendy-The letucce is burdock...says the dog trainer who pulls and cuts them off!
Nancy

Posted by nancy
May 9, 2006 06:26 AM

Burdock has a lot of interesting uses I knew nothing about until I looked it up. Thanks for identifying it for me Nancy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdock

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May 12, 2006 07:50 AM

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