Between the first of April and tax day is the peak wild flower season in Texas. The best time for driving the highways here varies from year to year but the first part of April is the standard. This year our drive to Dallas on the 8th was good and after four days of warm sunshine the drive home on the GLORIOUS.
Our (Texan’s) beautiful highways are the direct result of Lady Bird Johnson’s efforts on The Beautification Act of 
1965. She is called the environmental first lady because of her longstanding interest in keeping America beautiful. It is because of her love of native plants, wild flowers that Texas began allowing the native flowers to spread across the highway landscape. Now the hills become purple with the fields of Bluebonnets. And if you are really lucky you will pass by a field with bluebonnets mixed with Indian paintbrush or buttercups, daisies, purple poppies, and button bush. My photos are just an example – to see this beauty you have to come a drive from Houston to Austin to Bryan-College station to Dallas and back to Houston.
Oh, so gorgeous! It must be absolutely breathtaking in person!
ReplyDeleteMy neighbors left a week ago to drive around Texas to see the wildflowers. Yes, I'm jealous...
Thank you for sharing these!
That looks stunning. Something I'd love to see.
ReplyDeleteBEAUTIFUL! Thank you for capturing it all (well, that small part of the big reality).
ReplyDeleteI love fields of wildflowers.
Lucky you.
so beautiful! fields and fields of flowers. love the way you have displayed them.
ReplyDeleteDear Ginger,
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely correct, Texas highways are gougeous in the Spring, actually, I had a magical drive in the Spring of 99 between Dallas and Wichita Falls, that year was particularly colorful, but every year you can find magnificent spots near the Texas highways, it is definitely a show worth not missing...thanks for sharing such great pictures.
Ray
The flowers are simply gorgeous! I wish we have something like that here.
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