Your local wild plants

some weeds:

https://i.imgur.com/GRHIUHV.jpg
i've seen a lot of yellow rocket blooming during the last week. it looks pretty nice for a weed. it's in a different genus than normal cultivated rocket/arugula.

henbit, purple dead nettle, and ground ivy are all early-blooming mint family members with pink to purple flowers that i see as lawn weeds a lot. http://identifythatplant.com/three-easily-mixed-up-early-spring-plants/

curly dock isn't blooming yet, but it's 3+ ft tall in grassy areas that haven't been mowed, so it's hard to miss.

i'm curious about how ashes are doing in different places. i see a lot of dead ones in the woods, but also an incredible number of saplings, like the dying trees went into overdrive producing seeds. the street trees in my urban-ish neighborhood seem unaffected by emerald ash borer so far.

many of the ash trees in my vicinity are decorated with little signs that say “this ash is covered” or “be a smart ash” with info on the borer situation, and i don’t wanna tone police or nothing because it’s part of a really great local program to get ahead of the tree plague but the signs remind me of the joke about sean connery asking a lady to sit on his face. the trees are mostly looking okay though, hooray for trees!

one of the trails near here has a path that cuts along a hillside and crosses all these scruffy little gullies, and for a few weeks each year the gullies are crowded with mountain lupine blossoms, pink and blue and white and purple, up and down the hillside like flower waterfalls.