This weekend has been picture perfect here on the Cape and I’ve been lucky enough to be outside enjoying it almost all weekend long. Yesterday we headed down Cape for a long meander and while doing so decided to see if the wood lilies were in bloom in Truro.

They were. It took us a while to find them because first I had to remember how to get to Bearberry Hill in Truro. On the way to finding it we found some other wonderful places and to be honest, it was such a lovely summer day we would have been hard pressed not to find wonderful scenery wherever we ended up. 

I would never have known how special these flowers were if I hadn’t been lucky enough to follow Mario DiGregorio, one of the authors of “Cape Cod Wildflowers: A Vanishing Heritage” around one day when they were in bloom. He told us that wood lilies were pretty uncommon on the Cape and that in fact, this one part of Bearberry Hill was the best, if not the only, place to see them each summer. I remembered they were in bloom in July and we were lucky enough yesterday to hit the jackpot. The photos do not adequately capture the numbers or the beauty…

It was such a treat to find them–and then of course the view from the top of Bearberry Hill isn’t bad either….

If you get a chance to go this week, I highly recommend it…it’s worth the hike.