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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2012-03-31 06:45 pm

The first violets of Spring

I took this photo of violets last week, in northern Manhattan (Inwood Hill Park). It was very early for violets here, but the whole spring has been running early, starting with dandelions in late January. (Also uploaded to Flickr, two photos of different kinds of tiny purple flowers I don't have names for, and one of the same kind of violets, tiny purple flowers, and bright magenta rhododendron, also from the warm spell, but taken in Central Park.

violets growing in a sidewalk crack
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[personal profile] dantesspirit 2012-04-01 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
My back hill is covered this year with wild violets- both the ones here and the darker purple ones.