THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Supposed to be highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s all week.Time to start looking for Bluebonnets. The Central Texas winter is finally over and spring is finally on the way. Just another week or so and it will be here en toto. Kol HaKavod!

Try the Hill Country. There are wide fields of them on both sides of the road on Texas 71, a dozen miles or so west from Oak Hill all the way to U.S. 281 north and again through Marble Falls and on to Burnet. Even more than down around Washington-on-the-Brazos. Then from Burnet west on [...]

Still haven’t had a chance to get out and photograph the bluebonnets. And won’t for a while, now that Mrs. C. has me double-checking her tally of our taxes. We are not among these folks who, don’t you know, probably vote for the Dems who keep raising the taxes of the rest of us. See [...]

The Brazos, that is, according to JDAllen and Bob Dunn, here and here. They ought to know, the river being in their backyards, more or less. I need to drive down off the mountain and see if Shoal Creek is rushing white-water yet. She gets that way after all the rain we’ve been having. “Like [...]

They’re abundantly available, after all, just farther east than we’re used to. This shot was taken by a friend who lives out near Washington-on-the-Brazos.

Gracias to Ace of Spades HQ for linking to this picture of bluebonnets. My Sitemeter is recording what (for me) is an unusual amount of traffic. Only a few hundred or so, thus far, but that’s about twice what I normally see by this time of the day. Ace averages something like thirty-three thousand hits a day–he had [...]

Turmusim, by Treppenwitz in Jerusalem. Just a similar lupine but they sure look the same. 

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 [...]