I meant to get a panoramic shot of rolling hills of massed blue this year, but I got busy with other things and now the hillside bluebonnets nearby are fading. Fortunately, I still have this shot of a flower bed at Wildseed Farms, mixing heretical red and white bluebonnets with the real blue ones.
The ground’s wet at the rancho, but the temperature is rising. The sun is not expected to reappear until Wednesday, when spring should return. Meanwhile we’re off to the Hill Country to see the oceans of blue(bonnets) and other wild flowers.
"On this day in 1901, the Texas legislature proclaimed the bluebonnet the state flower. In the 1930s the state began a highway-beautification program that included scattering bluebonnet seed beside roadways, thus extending the flower’s range."
They should be starting to bloom right about now, although it’s been so dry this winter, they might be pretty sparse. Nevertheless, they’re looking tall and hardy in this photo from Big Bend.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 