Bluebonnets

Howdy! Spring is my favorite season! And it’s gorgeous in Texas this time of year!!!

The wildflowers are the best part of spring. Our roadsides are absolutely covered in them! Seas of absolutely gorgeous bluebonnets!! I’m in heaven during bluebonnet season!

Also walking/jogging/biking on the Trinity Trails is absolutely amazing right now!

Yes we have trails for our horses, however we don’t have pooper scooper laws for them unfortunately!!

So pretty!!!

One day when I took a new trail head I came across a gorgeous waterfall area! Turns out it is the only natural waterfall in Fort Worth!! It’s breathtaking! I’ve been back twice since then and just sat and stared at it and had some prayer and reflection time. It’s so serene and you really put a lot of things in perspective when you’re staring at the natural beauty God created! Also I don’t think many people know about this area- there’s never anyone else there!

I couldn’t decide which pics I liked best so you’re going to have to look at all of them! (click on them if you want to see them full size)

Gorgeous!

Beautiful Bluebonnets

One of the best things about Texas is the Bluebonnets in the spring! I’m completely obsessed with them!!

Facts about Bluebonnets:

They’re the state flower of Texas (adopted into state legislature in 1901)
We actually have 5 state flowers- all of them species of Bluebonnets(Lupines)! They are Lupinus subcarnosus, Lupinus texensis, Lupinus Havardii, Lupinus concinnus, and Lupinus plattensis for all you plant biology nerds out there!
They’re named for their color and, it is said, the resemblance of the petal to a woman’s sunbonnet
They bloom in the mid-March through May, with peak blooming in April.
They’re most commonly seen along roadsides and in uncultivated pastures.
The two predominant species of bluebonnets are found growing naturally only in Texas and at no other location in the world.

And any Texan worth their weight stops to take pictures of bluebonnets on the side of the road (doesn’t everyone have the obligatory photo in the bluebonnets from when they were a kid?! LOL!). This weekend I was driving to Houston and I saw a lovely patch of bluebonnets between Waco and College Station and I just HAD to pull over and take some pictures! I couldn’t decide which ones I liked the best, so I’m sharing all of them!