#FOTD: Trillium from my Portland garden

For Cee’s Flower of the Day photo challenge, another throwback to my Portland gardening days. Taken April 7, 2007.

I posted another trillium picture back in January, when I was looking over memories of times and gardens past. We don’t have trilliums here in Tucson–trilliums don’t have spines or thorns, and I believe it’s a local ordinance that anything grown here must be able to stab you. I don’t miss the rainy Portland winters, but I do–occasionally–miss slogging through my garden between showers to see if the trilliums were blooming yet. After months of grey and rain, I’d cling to any sign of spring the way an aphid clings to a rosebud.

How about you, dear readers? What’s your favorite sign of spring?