http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=10558

I guess I answered my own question. I get dogged about things. It is a Texas Toadflax , AKA Nuttallanthus texanus. I was thinking looked a bit like a linaria

Yes, it does look like a linaria. I had it every year in my yard in Oklahoma. maybe you finally got enough water to "activate" it:)

Descriptions say it is xeric but it has only appeared when we have had a gentle year. I can't say it is wet since we are still 10' below normal for the 12 month period. The rains have been well placed and all gentle soaking in rains, not he 8" downpour and nothing else. I have been using my very new looking, but old, unused mushroom book. My land was also over grazed so between the drought and the cows, it might just be more recuperation of the land.

Hmm, well my land was swampy frankly...and it was all over. So, I assumed....

Internets aren't always right.