Bluebonnets and other Wildflowers

Well, there was an article in the paper about taking photographs of wildflowers, Bluebonnets in particular, that suggested that one get there as soon as day breaks to get full color. So, I suggested we leave early in the morning to catch the full brilliance of the State flower. We hopped in the truck and took off for the community of White Hall about an hour away where last year we had found an entire half-mile square field fully resplendent in Bluebonnets.

Along the way we saw fields of Bluebonnets on 359, one of the roads leading to College Station, that not only did we not see last weekend but never in our travels while the girls went to school there. The rain and colder weather this year is making for a bumper crop of wildflowers albeit a few weeks behind schedule. Such was the case in White Hall. The field was just starting to sprout. A bit dejected we took a different route part of the way back home to see if we could find some pretty areas.

I spotted these Texas Longhorns and had to take their photo. As you can see the one dark one was used to posing and just stared into the camera. The white one was rather rude sticking its tongue out and lifting its tail. Very undignified.



Here are some bluebonnets that were along the side of the road where 359 crosses 290. The orangey flower is an Indian Paintbrush.



L>R: Prairie Spiderwort, unidentified at this time, immature Indian Paintbrush, unidentified at this time



L>R: Yellow Thistle, Bluebonnet field with Drummond's Phlox and some low Prairie Spiderwort, Drummond's Phlox with early morning mist, Plains Wild Indigo