And please tell me they're not goat head's. I usually don't see those until the middle of the summer.

Whatever they are, they are not any sort of salvia that I've ever seen. Neither are they lavender seedlings.

They do look pretty darn weedy to me :-)

It looks to me like a variety of horse tail weed, Do they come individually out of the ground? If they do it's horsetail

Gardengal, I've never seen these before.

Dowlinggram, I looked at a lot of horse tail weed pictures and it's not that. The stems all come from the center of the plant, except there aren't any leaves which I find strange.

Could you show a closer picture not taken from above? It's hard to see any detail. Failing more information the general appearance is reminiscent of Reseda lutea but I don't know if that even grows wherever you are.

Good idea Floral. When the sun comes up I'll take a close-up. Once I download the picture and enlarge it I can see if there's any leaves. I've been looking at all sorts of weeds/plants with no luck.

I remembered that's the area I used to throw birdseed when we'd have packed sleet or ice.

I'm pretty sure it's just another regular weed. Here's a close-up of the plant I posted above, and below it is some I found closer to the house. The buds aren't flower buds, but leaf buds. They're really cute though. :)

You should get a larger picture if you click on it.

I’m wondering if it’s something like:

Lepidium virginicum or L. densiflorum.

(Something in the mustard family.)

Well, it's not Reseda. Looks like Brassicaceae to me too.

I looked at quite a few of Brassicaceae and none have the same leaves. Here's a closeup of two stems, each about 3" long and thinner than a pencil. The white on the plant in the above pictures had to be caused by the sun because there's no white on them at all.

See the little cluster in the middle of stem on the right? It's so tiny I could barely see it. but it looks like little heads of something is forming.

What you see there are stems of seed pods. Any remaining flowers are at the very tips of those stems. Brassicaceae is a huge family and many have similar leaves. Miz_G's suggestion of a Lepidium looks like a good candidate.

That explains the little seed in the picture above. I'm going to keep an eye on it to see if I get any blooms.

They're at the edge of our rock driveway so they'll get sprayed. I know spraying's bad but we have a large driveway and there's no other way to control the weeds.

Oakley, it sure seems early for those to have bloomed and gone to seed. I think of them as a summer plant. Some people let them dry in the field and gather them to make dried wreaths. They make sort of a foamy, delicate arrangement. In my childhood, we called this plant "peppergrass" and would bite the seedpods while they were still green to release a peppery bite. A gravelly driveway or a much trampled sports field was a typical place to find them.

If you leave them to dry you've allowed them to drop their seeds.

here we call that field pennycress....control by spray or cultivation.