Faith, Folklore, and Friends

One of the first things you notice about Texas is the wildflowers that are everywhere; you can see them all over the country sides and even in the big cities.  In early April, bluebonnets really put on a show. The pinkish/coral flowers are Indian Paint Brush.  They are so beautiful mixed in with the bluebonnets. The wildflowers are worth the trip.  God bless Texas.

These images are from the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio.  Be sure to wear your walking shoes!  

We have loved Chip and Joanna Gaines since they first showed up on Home and Garden television.  I kept hoping they would come and see us; that they would take out some walls and update the kitchen and extend the patio, without the $150,000 budget.  It never happened, most likely never will happen, so we decided to go see them instead. We had spent the weekend in Cleburne, just south of Fort Worth, and it was an easy drive to Waco.  It was Monday, April 1st, and we expected the weather to be toasty warm.  It was not warm at all.  The temperature was in the forties, with a cold north wind.  If you know me well, you know that is not my kind of weather. But we were determined, so we toured the Silos in our coats and sandals.     We had been told that you could see the Silos before you got off of I35. We saw many silos before we got to Waco, with me getting excited at every one of them until we finally got to the "real" ones....

We have been to the panhandle, the hill country, the coast, and many places in between, and we have learned this: Everywhere you go in Texas, there are wildflowers. On our trip this summer, we drove more than eight hundred miles in Texas, most of it off the interstate.  And everywhere we went, there were wildflowers. Thank you, Texas, for Austin and its history, the river walk in San Antonio, the beaches of Galveston (we slept on the Galveston beach in a tent once, but that is a blog for another day),  the Bush family, windmills, the Pulpwood Queen, oil wells,  George Strait,   and Luckenbach.  Most of all, thank you for the wildflowers.