Yup. There were also some very nice orange tiger lilies, some chocolate liles (didn't turn up often but were very nice) and a whole bunch others. Then there were little gems like the dodecatheon (shooting star) and my absolute favorites to get down on my hands and knees with the closeup lens to photograph on the occasions when I found them--the pipsissewa and the elephant's head pedicularis. (Here's another pedicularis.)

It doesn't hurt to dwell on spring issues now--because this is when so many of those flowers need to be seeded or planted in order to come up next spring. I took a $7 bag of mixed daffodil bulbs (corms?) last year and poked them around the yard for wonderful results this spring and early summer. I need to see if I can split some of those this year and spread them a little more. They're all down there somewhere!

I'm planning an experiment to deal with those first weeds that take over the yard before the turf comes back. Last spring my organic guru said they've been testing the spraying of vinegar (10%) on the lawn here in North Texas between christmas and new years. It seems that spraying about then is enough to knock out the seeds or sprouts of those early plants without harming the lawn (which is dormant). Not that I'm in love with grass anyway, but this is what they said.

SRS