April 11, 2010

 

All,
I was able to get out and kayak on a local river with a friend from work yesterday. If you didn't know, it is Blue Bonnet flower festival time in Texas. There are many wild flowers that bloom each year, but this year is exceptional. This is partially due to an extremely hot and dry summer last year and a wet fall and spring. As we drove through the countryside, there was a color explosion in almost every field. Here are a few pictures. Some fields were so bright that I almost needed sunglasses.
 
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Gerald

 

 

 

 

And other Signs of Spring from online around the world.

Here in Connecticut there are yellow flowers everywhere you look:  forsythia, dandelions, daffodils, and occasional yellow tulips.  My files are full of iris, chrysanthemums sunflowers, anemones, rudbekia, calla lilies, and an unidentified futurist fantasy.  What more can I say? Virginia

Ambrosius Bossaert, Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge, 1619-20 (LACMA)

Almost 400 years old!

 

Happy Spring!

Pete

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