feels like early spring

a walk around the yard. Picking up sticks, noticed green stuff growing among the leaf litter and mud, went to get my camera. It seems early, but here they are. Arum:

My ajuga (bugleweed) survived the winter! Of course it did, ha.

Daylilies. I need to clean up their old foliage.

Small bit of cranesbill leaf.

This volunteer plant I still think might be a wild ginger?

Rumex, bold and brassy

Autumn joy sedums. I need to dig and move them.

and my favorite, still-unknown blue-green weed

My newer shrubs are all doing fine (although it's too early to tell with the rose-of-sharon, they won't show growth till much later). Here's my mountain laurel- the one I keep forgetting to give any attention.

Bonus: I found a small black spiky caterpillar crawling on the edge of lawn. Woolly bear- without any brown/russet bands. Can't remember if I ever saw an all-black one before.