The mystery plant is creeping cinquefoil. It has it's uses, but I think I'll just pull it out when I see it. I rather like the greater celandine with its interesting leaves and big buttery yellow flowers. But I pull that, too, when it encroaches on domesticated plants.

I'm not sure what to attack next -- raking and clearing the area under the hemlocks and the back of the back bed (so I can set up my lawn lounge chair and drinks holder there) or start pulling and bagging the thorn bushes in the bed behind the house or lopping and cutting brush out back... Probably I'll "putter" and continue doing a bit of everything at once.

Linn