Yeah, but not every picture can be spring ... but if it makes you feel better, this flower always signals spring has sprung and gives us something to look forward too when the cold goes away:
Believe they're called Fleabane and native to your state, but they grow wild here in Arkansas. A member of the Daisy family.
Yes, I have those on the farm. The name comes from the superstition that the dried flowers will rid your home of fleas. Which explains why I have seen a lot of them in dried flower arrangements. The leaves are edible and can be cooked with your greens. It has medicinal uses: diuretic and digestive. Good to know. I've been trying to learn what we have naturally here incase we ever needed to survive off the land.
28 degrees and a light cover of snow ,this may be the last hunt of the year as hunting season opens tomorrow... 150 year old saw mill that sawed 100,000 board feet a year , been waiting all year to hunt this s spot as it is so overgrown ...all we have to do is get across the creek without getting our feet wet....