Skunk Cabbage in bloom

I have been working all over in the yard, but never touching some of the plants.

I only look at the beauty of the skunk cabbage and never get close enough to weed it.

Nor close enough to smell it.

I did not have time to stop and pick up the burdock that is at the bottom left of the picture, just waiting for a chance to embed itself into the bank of the stream.

Picking up those nasty clumps of seeds is what I should have been doing instead of trying to get the camera to focus "just right" on the skunk cabbage itself.

The brilliant yellow is the only colour in the garden so far.

On the trip back to Calgary I was watching for patches of skunk cabbage along the highway.

Usually there is a whole marsh of it, just to the south of the Enchanted Forest.

That area is not in bloom yet, nor are the water lilies that are there in bloom as yet, but a person who travels the road frequently should start looking out for the flower right now. 

Hard to imagine that the leaves of the plant are going to get six feet high before the summer is out.

Lovely patches of the plant can be seen from the highway, if a person looks over the side of the road and into the meadows along the kilometer that rims the Skunk Cabbage Board Walk in Revelstoke National Park.

The only person who should not look is the driver.

This is the closest view I can get for you of the middle of the flower.

I wish I could have captured the sound of the stream as it was running by, as well.

Arta