Easter Weekend Flower Profusion - LIFE!

God's offer of new life for our hearts is evident everywhere in the garden this Easter weekend: Forsythia bush, tiny grape hyacinths, lilac tree buds, daffodils...



...and even this lovely purple lawn weed. I'd love an I.D. on this last photo if anyone knows. I had fun with this online flower identifier, and it did come up with a flower that looks mighty similar: Dame's Rocket. Except that ours don't seem to have big, hairy leaves... so the jury's out. But it does agree that it's a weed, prohibited in Massachusetts, "invasive and banned" in Connecticut, and classed as a "noxious weed" in Colorado. And it did originate in Europe. Still, it's pretty! I don't mind it in my lawn...the more purple, the better, in my book.