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How many blooming buttercups did you count Saturday?

Buttercups are late-winter blooming wildflowers in the Inland Northwest.
Buttercups are late-winter blooming wildflowers in the Inland Northwest.

WILDFLOWERS -- It's a dependable mood lifter when the winter snow recedes and the sun shines for a few days in Eastern Washington. 

A harbinger of spring, let's have three cheers for the amazing buttercup!

I have at least 10 Facebook friends who've seen their first blooms of 2017 in the past two weeks in Spokane County wild areas and places such as BLM's Fishtrap Lake Recreation Area.
 



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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