bluebonnets

Many thanks to my friend Abby Tank, who gave me the scoop on where to find this fabulous field of bluebonnets for pictures this afternoon. The boys were very cooperative given that I had bribed them with a trip to Baskin-Robbins if they posed for me. (The ice cream man happened to swing through the neighborhood after we got home, so we got to save on gas. And it's one of the things I love about our new neighborhood...we actually have real ice cream trucks that roll through our streets, playing their music box songs.) I think we'll have to go back at sunset one day and try to get some without the squinting. But there were a few cute ones:

I love this time of year in Texas when the wildflowers are in bloom and things are, at least for a little while, full of color and life. Will literally shot off away from us across the fields of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes as soon as I gave the word that they were free to go. He was so cute running through the flowers and smelling them. I'm not sure I've ever been in a field that was far enough removed from traffic to actually smell their scent. The fragrance was really beautiful and distinct as we wandered around, avoiding fire ants and the blooms.


Yes, I know, we are allowing our children to pick wildflowers...but I don't think they'll arrest us for two, will they?


Jim's mom used to sing him a song about bluebonnets, that we pretend to know the words to as we drive past the fields of color this time of year. It ends..."Bluebonnets, bluebonnets, bluebonnets, O, so blue. We know you'll return again to Texas in the Spring." It's one of my favorite times of the year...bluebonnets and wildflowers, swaying in the breeze...two little boys and their mom drinking it all in...