The top of Lantern Hill is only 491 feet high, but, because it's the only real promontory in the neighborhood, the view is truly spectacular... in fact, sometimes too spectacular. Because your eyes are drawn outward and upward so much, it's easy to miss the world at ground level, and that would be a shame. Lantern Hill is also amazingly rich in wildflowers, and in mid- to late-April, the star of the floral show is a diminutive, ground-level stunner known as Trailing Arbutus. These wonderfully aromatic flowers, which rise only a little past their tough, perennial, leathery leaves, are the favorites of the equally early-emerging queen bumblebees, as well as early emerging naturalists. The blooms were originally dubbed "mayflowers," but in the era of global warming, that name is no longer appropriate. By whatever common designation, the species Epigaea repens is, in the era of COVID-19, a delight for weary eyes and a joy for the coronavirus-battered soul.