Here are a few photos that were taken …. we had a great time!

I don’t know who took this shot of me, Jan or Trish …. checking on the burgers!

All of these were shot the “lazy way” …. from the car window while driving down country roads.  My fave type of shooting )

Mother enjoying the view …

The lake is a very pretty place …..

The floor of the woods was covered in Mayapples.

The mayapple is also called the hogapple, Indian apple, umbrella plant (shape of the leaves), wild lemon (flavor of the fruit), wild mandrake, American mandrake (shape of rhizomes) or "devil’s apple"

The Virginia Bluebell is a fairly common plant that occurs in most counties of Illinois. Habitats include wet to moderately moist woodlands, especially in semi-shaded floodplain areas along rivers, bluffs, and flower gardens.

The preference is light shade to partial sun in moist wooded areas with rich soil. The foliage dies down by mid-summer.

Spiderwort

The leaves are long, thin and bladelike to lanceolate, from 3-45 cm long. The flowers are white, pink or purple but most commonly bright blue, with three petals and six yellow anthers.

A number of the species flower in the morning and when the sun shines on the flowers in the afternoon they close up, but the flowers can remain open on cloudy days until evening.

Though sometimes accounted as a weed, spiderwort is cultivated for borders and also used in containers. Where it appears as a volunteer, it is often welcomed and allowed to stay.

I had no idea that this was in the cemetery …. never drove all the way around to the back side before!