Spring flowers—and lots of ’em.  This is but a sample from the last few days.  From here on out it’s an explosion of color.  I promise not to share them all at once.

Missouri violet (a.k.a. banded violet; Viola missouriensis)

Roadside blue-eyed grass (a.k.a. dotted blue-eyed grass or southern blue-eyed grass; Sisyrinchium langloisii)

Redstem stork’s bill (a.k.a. pin clover, redstem filaree or common stork’s-bill; Erodium cicutarium)

Shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

Crowpoison (a.k.a. crow poison or false garlic; Nothoscordum bivalve)

Common grape hyacinth (Muscari botryoides [sometimes Hyacinthus botryoides])

Henbit (a.k.a. henbit deadnettle or greater henbit; Lamium amplexicaule)

Texas ragwort (a.k.a. Texas groundsel, Texas butterweed or Texas squaw-weed; Senecio ampullaceus); note the crab spider in the lower right corner (no name for the little critter as I didn’t pull enough details in any of the photos to make a positive ID, though I can narrow it down to a genus or two)

[all photos from White Rock Lake]