Bluebonnets, Paintbrushes, Mesquite Trees-Oh My!

It just so happened that the same weekend I planned to participate in the Hill Country Lawn and Garden Show in Burnet, the Hill Country came alive with color, blue and red with a touch of white and yellow, all against the bright lime green of fresh grass and budding...

Bluebonnets Aren’t Always Blue

One other discovery I made on this last trip to the Hill Country was a little cluster of white bluebonnets. We all enjoy the flood of bluebonnets in the Spring. And you may have heard of or have seen the pink bluebonnet that we Aggies prefer to call maroon, or as it...

The Rest of the Mesquite Tree and Wildflower Story

So to continue my story about the wildflowers and railroad track, I was told about a half mile down the track there was an old railroad trestle and yet more bluebonnets that would make for a nice picture. Well, I needed my daily walk anyway, and a half mile isn’t that...

Mesquite Trees and Wildflowers

Every year about this time the wildflowers come out in the Hill Country, and every year I tell myself I have enough bluebonnet and paint brush pictures. Every year the little devils seduce me once again, and I take yet more pictures. But this year I think I took as...
Nature’s First Green Really is Gold

Nature’s First Green Really is Gold

Now don’t panic-I’m not putting you through an English lesson on poetry-and we could look at this one on several levels, but Robert Frost said it best when he wrote “Nature’s first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold.” We drove down to the Texas Hill Country for our...