Thursday, April 8, 2010

How Beautiful the Bonnets




I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"


Spring had indeed arrived as evidenced by the Texas countryside. Wildflowers abound. I wasn't able to stop the car on the windy roads last Saturday, but happened to catch these few photos near my house. Imagine an entire field rolling in blue.

Last year's drought? Long forgotten. The winter's rain has provided a bumper crop of beauty.






So much for that brief visit to nature. Back to completing my taxes. When I come out of the number blitz, I'll resume regular life again.

23 comments:

  1. Stunning vistas! Refreshing and tranquil place.

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  2. Beautiful! I love spring...and all the new things growing around me.

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  3. I love the Texas Blue Bonnets. When my mom used to live in Austin, every time we visited, I'd take pictures of my kids in a patch of them. They are some of my favorite pictures.

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  4. HEAVEN!! Just love the spring... my favourite time of the year... lovely photos. x

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  5. I call foul!

    Much like it's "illegal" to pick bluebonnets, it is also illegal to take photos of the bluebonnets without someone sitting in them. That is totally a law somewhere. Probably a "blue" law.

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  6. ooooh.. those are sooo beee-yooo-ti-fulll!! Just breathtakingly lovely. Awesome!

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  7. Just gorgeous!! Thanks for adding some color to my day....

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  8. Beauty of the flowers and the beast of the taxes, a real mixture of the good and the bad.....once you are done with the taxes you will feel so much better...:-) Hugs

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  9. Beautiful. I think I'd feel as if I'd stepped into a Monet painting.

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  10. Oh, I remember them so well! I know they would have flourished on their own, but who will ever forget how much Lady Bird did to promote the proliferation of these and other wildflowers, not just in Texas but across the nation. I credit her with raising awareness of their beauty, and with all those lovely islands of wildflowers dividing so many highways (though that may not be the case at all!).

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  11. Lovely. This ought to make doing the numbers a bit less taxing. Cheers!

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  12. Beautiful and breathtaking photos! I love Blue Bonnets, but seldom see them, here. I am doing my taxes, at the last minute, too! Cheers, cher!!

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  13. Haha! Loved Fragrant Liar's comment!

    Don't know if I've ever said that I just love your banner photo. It speaks so well to you, your time of life, your attitudes - at least what I know of all that.

    Good luck with your taxes. I did mine last week, thinking that the deadline was April 1, and it turns out to be April 30. On the one hand, I'm happy to have them done, and on the other I don't like AT ALL that I mis-remember the deadline.

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  14. How pretty! I wish I had something akin to blue bonnets that volunteered themselves. Instead I get big, ugly weeds that I have to hack out by their huge taproots.

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  15. Now that is a sight that I miss. Thanks for sharing the wonderful blues with us stuck up North. Enjoy your weekend.

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  16. I would LOVE,LOVE,LOVE to have a field full of these! GORGEOUS! :)

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  17. I could walk through this lovely place all afternoon and soak in the peace.

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  18. Love the Edna St. Vincent Millay quote and may just place it somewhere on my blog permanently.

    I think the entire USA is abloom with flowers this year. ACHOOO! But aren't they just awesome?

    Di
    The Blue Ridge Gal

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  19. really beautiful pics...was in DC yesterday looking at the cherry blossoms...it is indeed spring...ah, cant you smell it.

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  20. Mmmmmmm, I want to go there and lie down in them...be surrounded...sleep in the sun among them.

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  21. I remember seeing fields of bluebonnets on the side of the highway between Phoenix and Tucson when I lived in AZ. Absolutely gorgeous. I haven't thought about that in YEARS. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

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  22. Oh, I shall miss the bluebonnets! The pictures are wonderful. Such a lovely shade of blue.



    That's what I am a "humdinger"
    (word verification)

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  23. Is that lupine? Such incredible color! I hope the respite helps you with your taxes. :-)

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