The Eastern Garter Snake should always be welcome in the garden; they eat slugs, snails, earthworms, insects plus small mammals like mice moles, voles and chipmunks. They grow to 20-to-30 inches long.
Spring beauties are a spring ephemeral flower, providing early nectar for bees and other pollinators. Spring beauty are threatened by invasive species like lesser celandine.
This hyacinth might have been relocated by a squirrel.
Rose petaled daffodil
Skunk cabbage is one of the first native plants to surface in the woods, pictured here with its round, brown flowers at its base.
Frogs eggs are a sign of a healthy woodland.