Every year old Pa Pitt gives you pictures of these daylilies, because every year they are the earliest to bloom. They came from an unnamed hybrid seedling, so it is very likely that this exact variety exists nowhere else on earth. Raindrops add a decorative effect to the pictures.
At this magnification it looks like a log, but this was a little twig, and these fungi are very small.
Fern fiddleheads unrolling along the Trillium Trail, Fox Chapel.
Virginia bluebells line a trail in Fox Chapel.
Bluebells are not necessarily always blue, as you can learn at our sister site Flora Pittsburghensis.
