I don’t know maple trees well to know for sure, but I think I was looking for red maple trees yesterday. It’s the maple with the seeds out now, as opposed to the sugar maple with the flowers out now. I was searching in the cemetery and soon learned that if the ground is yellow, veer off somewhere else because those are flowers covering the ground.

There’s a vast smell of skunk cabbage in the area where the cemetery meets Riverside Park on the northeast. Quite an interesting odor.

And if you’re interested, the state champion dogwood is in full bloom in the cemetery. There are a pair of dogwoods in the cemetery, but one is exceptionally large for a dogwood.

When you leave the cemetery and drive into town, look to the southeast for another huge dogwood. The Doc Sutton home at North and Locust has another smaller one, along with Joe and Kris Farquhar on North Street.