Our state flower started blooming a couple of weeks ago, but they're just now starting to really put on a show... Unfortunately, I haven't been able to stop and take pics during my deliveries. If I've got a few minutes, there doesn't seem to be one in sight, and when I'm surrounded by them, I'm on a run!
so this single solitary specimen that has managed to survive in my yard will have to do...
They'll continue to bloom until the summer heat really hits, although after Mothers Day they'll be much less impressive. There's a rather annoying tradition of people wanting to take pictures of their children running through the bluebonnets on Mothers Day... consequently, most of the displays beside the highways, which the state seeds at some expense, end up looking pummelled. A few years ago, the state troopers started ticketing people for it, but it still seems to happen. There are a few places along the highway where on M. D. They have a mowed path down to a circular mowed patch, where you can sit the kids on a bench with a fine display of the flowers spread out behind them... and this usually has a trooper standing there making sure nobody grabs a handfull of them... that's illegal too...
and they were so perfectly set against a rundown farm house too...
