Happy Bloodroot Day! + more Project Reset!verse from tainry!
They are a couple weeks early this year - warm super early spring, although it's supposed to get cold again next week.
And THEN, more Projectreset!verse and hatchling adorableness from tainry, EEEEEEEEEE!!! And it includes bloodroot! :D
Spring Prompts: http://archiveofourown.org/works/10175801/chapters/22600559
For more reading recs, check out the most awesome self-insert fic EVAR by Mllemusketeer:
Ten Ways to ACTUALLY Die While Working on Your PhD: http://archiveofourown.org/works/10165517/chapters/22582508
And a Voltron one - space-fugitive Shiro somehow acquires three little boys and a baby-Pidge
Can't Take the Sky from Me: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9274556
Peekaboo!
Tiny baby bloodroot leaves - the seeds get carried and planted by ants, so I've little bloodroots popping up in odd spots all over my yard.
Virginia bluebells - leaves pushing up like little purple cabbages
Sharp-lobed hepatica
Wild columbine leaves
Baby shooting star seeds sprouting! My attempt at winter sowing, where you plant native seeds that need cold stratification in soda bottles, plastic milk jugs, or other greenhouses, and just leave them outside all winter so they can get the cold temps they need. Worked like a charm! I've tried to plant them before and they got flooded by rain or dug up by squirrels - the seeds are the size of dust. The soda bottle greenhouse keeps them safe while they're still tiny