{"id":317,"date":"2012-04-08T18:40:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T23:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-04-08T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T23:40:40","slug":"texas-rite-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/texas-rite-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rite of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Spring in Texas, and so far, it has been a real Spring.\u00a0 Oh, we have had a few days with unreal temperatures, and we have had a day filled with tornadoes – 12 to 15 of them – and a downpour of rain.\u00a0 Rain.\u00a0 It is something we have had quite a bit of this year, and it is much needed.\u00a0 I don’t think anyone is complaining, either.\u00a0 The tornadoes we can do without, however.<\/p>\n

“April showers bring May flowers.”\u00a0 For Texas, though, it’s more like “February and March showers bring out Texas bluebonnet flowers.”\u00a0 And this year because of all of the rain, the bluebonnets are everywhere in great numbers.\u00a0 A beautiful sight to see, given the drought and heat of the last few years, which made bluebonnets sparse.\u00a0 And while they bloom, their fragrance is wonderful.<\/p>\n

I always look forward to this time of year.\u00a0 Sure, other flowers abound, but there is something about the bluebonnets that brings out a somewhat controlled “silliness” in people.\u00a0 A small field or rather large clump of bluebonnets suddenly has a parking lot of cars surrounding it with children and adults, some with dogs, laughing giddily while squatting or sitting among the blooms while an equally giddy person with a face glued to the back of a camera snaps repeatedly away in hopes of capturing that “special” moment for all time.\u00a0 Just as suddenly as they appeared the laughing dies as car doors slam and they zoom off in search of a new pristine clump to roll in while another group of equally silly and giddy adults, children and dogs take their place among the now trodden and flattened state flower.\u00a0 In Texas, this is a statewide rite of Spring and quite anticipated.\u00a0 As it should be, since this is the only time the bluebonnet blooms.<\/p>\n

I, too, look forward to this time of year, attending the closest festival and driving the “Bluebonnet Trail” in Ennis County.\u00a0 But, this year was different; gas prices have sky rocketed, and driving the Trail alone was not something I cared to do.\u00a0 I thought for sure that I would not get any photos this year, but did manage to work some in without joining in the frenzy.\u00a0 Far less than the two or three hundred photos that had become normal, I took only a handful.\u00a0 I am glad that I was able to do so, however.\u00a0 Somehow it would not be Spring unless I got the opportunity to see, smell, and photograph a few bluebonnets.<\/p>\n

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It’s Spring in Texas, and so far, it has been a real Spring.\u00a0 Oh, we have had a few days with unreal temperatures, and we have had a day filled with tornadoes – 12 to 15 of them – and a downpour of rain.\u00a0 Rain.\u00a0 It is something we have had quite a bit of this year, and it is much needed.\u00a0 I don’t think anyone is complaining, either.\u00a0 The tornadoes we can do without, however. “April showers bring May flowers.”\u00a0 For Texas, though, it’s more like “February and March showers bring out Texas bluebonnet flowers.”\u00a0 And this year because of all of the rain, the bluebonnets are everywhere in great numbers.\u00a0 A beautiful sight to see, given the drought and heat of the last few years, which made bluebonnets sparse.\u00a0 And while they bloom, their fragrance is wonderful. I always look forward to this time of year.\u00a0 Sure, other flowers abound, but there is something about the bluebonnets that brings out a somewhat controlled “silliness” in people.\u00a0 A small field or rather large clump of bluebonnets suddenly has a parking lot of cars surrounding it with children and adults, some with dogs, laughing giddily while squatting or sitting among the blooms while an equally giddy person with a face glued to the back of a camera snaps repeatedly away in hopes of capturing that “special” moment for all time.\u00a0 Just as suddenly as they appeared the laughing dies as car doors slam and they zoom off in search of Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y5uS-57","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}