Clusters of Flowers

The purple trillium is dotting the woodlands in shady clusters near the pond and in the uplands - deep scarlet petals droop below bright green leaves when they close up for the night. In the daylight they capture the sun...opening wide.
Violets have migrated to the sandy soil in back of the house beneath the eaves...how did they come to be there? Some are purple with white streaks. The habitat is readjusting itself after two years.
The poly wog eggs have been deposited on green stalks growing up from the pond's bottom. The voices of the frogs are now not quite as urgent. Things are alive again.
On Saturday my husband caught a rainbow trout - one of the fish he stocked the pond with last year. His scales looked like he had been rolled in light green sequins. They caught the sun.