Magnificent Magnolia

This magnolia at "C" has been magnificent.

There are many magnolias on campus, including this one reaching for a cloud.

More bloodroot blooming in the picnic area.

I am amazed to see any at all with all the lesser celandine.

First garter snake I have seen this year,

This insect is in the family Vespidae, and is a Polistes, which makes it a wasp, a paper wasp.  But it does not look like our usual paper wasp, so I think it might be a Polistes rubinginosus.  Still it is a paper wasp.

Another view of the Cherry Allee.