Texas Bluebonnets

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Texas Bluebonnets

All pictures were taken from the internet.  The pictures are beautiful but there's nothing like being in bluebonnet country during the spring.

Bluebonnets were named Texas' official state flower in 1901.

Lore of the Texas Bluebonnet

Bluebonnets have been loved since man first trod the vast prairies of Texas. Indians wove fascinating folk tales around them. The early-day Spanish priests gathered the seeds and grew them around their missions. This practice gave rise to the myth that the padres had brought the plant from Spain, but this cannot be true since the two predominant species of bluebonnets are found growing naturally only in Texas and at no other location in the world. 

As historian Jack Maguire so aptly wrote, "It's not only the state flower but also a kind of floral trademark almost as well known to outsiders as cowboy boots and the Stetson hat." He goes on to affirm that "The bluebonnet is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland, the cherry blossom to Japan, the lily to France, the rose to England and the tulip to Holland."

The ballad of our singing governor, the late W. Lee O'Daniel, goes, "you may be on the plains or the mountains or down where the sea breezes blow, but bluebonnets are one of the prime factors that make the state the most beautiful land that we know.

When the pastures are green in the springtime

And the birds are singing their sonnets,

You may look to the hills and the valleys

And they're covered with lovely Bluebonnets.

Until Next Time