That makes sense - I was at a distance shooting the blue-gray bird with a smaller lens and by the time I reached him, he flew into a thicket and when I looked into the thicket I found the catbird. They didn't seem like one and the same bird. Thanks for the IDs, TMFF, and clearing up my confusion. Shyamala

I would go with one of the many varieties of graptosedum, or sedeveria.

#1 could be a variety of Lamium galeobdolon #2 is Lamium maculatum #3 looks like Corydalis lutea

Thank you Carol- i will look up the names you provided as it is alway nice to discover new plants. i was buying small celery plants when i spotted it next to the Parsley. -i did ask for the name, but i didn't write it down (it was not a herb that i had ever heard of) but i was told it went in pies. i thought it looked like Burnet. possibly some flavour will develop later -so far it just tastes fluffy :-(