The bloodroot isn’t up yet.

That was what I went looking for on my first hike of the season in mid-April. My first hike in months and since receiving CAR-T treatment and spending several weeks in the hospital. I wanted to see if the bloodroot was peeking through in the spot where it always comes up, in the woods near the grassy stretch where the trail bends back toward Lake Champlain at Point au Roche park in very upstate NY. I was a little early. No bloodroot. No trillium. No wildflowers of any kind.…