Nature Walk

The girls love to go out to the lake and take walks.  One of the parks we go to has a trail through the woods.  It is often used by horse riders.  We haven't walked it for almost a month because the frost was coming out and it was so wet.  It has been in the 80's now for two weeks.  The frost has to be out by now.  I tried to walk the path but I kept running into wet, swampy, mucky areas of the trail.  I had to go off the path and into the taller grass (wood tick haven). I decided to take the short path.

Yellow Flowers

The wild violets are blooming (in yellow, white and violet/blue.)  I didn't take pictures of the mosquitos but they are in full bloom too.

Blue Flowers

It never ceases to amaze me how beautifully the spring flowers bloom despite the cold and uncooperative weather.

White Flowers with blue "faces"

To my surprise, at the edge of the path was this itsy-bitsy scull. Looking closely it looks like the skull might have been crushed.  I didn't see any other bones nearby.  But I can't say that I dug around to look either.

Skull

Does anyone know what animal that this might belong too?  My first thoughts are that it could be a squirrel or a rabbit.  

Skull on edge of trail