Today’s photograph is of the flower I think my mom my loves best… Although, to a flower lover this may be sort of like saying you have a favorite child. There is a green thumb gene somewhere is her Lapp family heritage that she and her sister have carried on from my Grandpa but just never really took hold of me. I guess I photograph the blooms instead of plant them!
Thou art the Iris, fair among the fairest,
Who, armed with golden rod
And winged with the celestial azure, bearest
The message of some God.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Iris
Bloom Online 
I am enjoying your countdown to Spring! These photographs are beautiful.
Thank you so much Linda! I hope you and the family are doing great!