This morning at Walnut Creek

From the top: Mexican hat (or prairie coneflower), horsemint, Texas parsley, primrose, some sort of shrub with berries, swallowtail in trail mud (the only butterfly that would stay still this morning), ultra-blue spiderwort, and some sort of sage-y plant. Below: one of my mountain laurels has a couple of mutant bud stalks that creep me out whenever I see them