ladybird

This really is the best (only tolerable) time of year in Texas when the wildflowers are in full bloom and we can stay outside playing soccer late into the evening without catching on fire.

I am not even going to try to describe what it is like to drive up MoPac and see the median overflowing with bluebonnets. 

Not last week but the week before, I went to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. twice! 

My mom had an afternoon conference at my school - the last one with me as a primary student. So we thought three hours in the garden, en route to school, would give us plenty of time. (Wrong, I would've stayed all day.) It was my first time visiting since the Luci and Ian Family Garden opened. And the best feature is the exercise equipment right there in the meadow. They have exercise bikes and ellipticals and what else? bench press. It was the best thing we'd ever seen and we had to wonder why we didn't know about that and why we don't have a annual membership and go there every single day. 

Disclaimer: in the photo above, I am not sour. It was just really bright.

I have also been keeping close track of what is growing in my own yard. (see below)

Last year, the Easter bunny brought me a pack of wildflower seeds to cover 100 square feet of ground. I scattered them immediately throughout the front yard. I did get two bluebonnets and a million flowers that I cannot identify.