Discovery Trail - Gatineau Park
May 8, 2004

This trail was once used by french settlers on their way to the area of what is now the town of masham. Off Brian's parking lot, this is a favourite trail of ours for finding and identifying spring wildflowers.

 
the first flowers we spotted on the trail... bloodroot.

a very tiny bird's nest in a bush

 
trout lily (aka. adder's tongue or dogtooth violet)

red trillum

 
spring beauties

garlic mustard (they actually taste like garlic)

 
white trilliums

i am not sure why the beech tree is smiling... it has a really bad hairdo

moose wood

 
a glimpse of meech lake

honeysuckle

 
rose twisted stalk (a.k.a. rosybells)

 
some artsy nature shots

 
dutchman's britches

looking for some good eats...
by the streams you can find some tasty water cress but the mushrooms in the trees aren't out yet.

 
blue cohosh

 
spring is trying to poke out from underneath the leaves

 
garlic leek (protected in gatineau park)

very red mushrooms

canada violet

 
red fern

   
unknowns (to us)

 
left: wild lily-of-the-valley (a.k.a. Canada Mayflower)
right: sarsaparilla

lily of the valley

 
painted trillium

wooley mullen

 
smooth yellow violet

if a tree falls in the forest... does that mean it is the end of the photos?