Friday, May 14, 2010

The Yellow Roads of Texas

I mentioned earlier, describing another trip to Lubbock, how much in evidence the Redbud trees were along the route. This most recent trip can only be described as the color yellow.

By-and-large the Bluebonnets have had their turn - we saw just a few stands of those blooms along the way. Now it is time for the yellow wildflowers, and they were out in abundance.

Fields of yellow, borrow-ditches of yellow, hillsides of yellow! Yellow as far as the eye could see; yellow in the road dividers.


Daiseys, Coreopsis, Black-eyed Susan,
Bitterweed, Desert Marigolds, Engleman, Musterd, Nettle, Dandelions.






Often mixed with the Indian blanket to blend reds and yellows in contrast, and many times frosted with the lace of the white Milfoil.


I didn't take these pictures. If I had stopped for every photo opportunity, we would have gotten home late Tuesday.

1 comment:

Julie said...

That was my first thought - "Did he stop and take all of these pictures?" Isn't it nice that you can find these pictures to show what it looked like without having to do all that stopping?