Some of the good things in TX.

[hobbit709]

[Dustlawyer]

1. Thank you Ladybird!

This time of year the shoulders of the highways and byways are not only covered with wild flowers, they are covered with cars stopping for pictures of family and pets among the flowers. Stay safe and enjoy!

[DhhD]

23. Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center

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http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LUHA

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

2. Beautiful!

This is our first spring in Texas and we're really enjoying the bluebonnets along with all the other wildflowers. Well, except for the sneezing

[kag]

3. Some other great things in Texas:

My extended family--true-blue Democrats every one!

[Sophiegirl]

5. Don't be a jerk! eom

[hobbit709]

11. And in what blue Utopia do you live in?

[hobbit709]

16. Answer the question

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Evidently slam and run is your game.

[hobbit709]

31. Then keep your mouth shut about TX.

[hobbit709]

34. There's an old saying about don't let your alligator mouth overload your baby ass.

Obviously you're ashamed of the state you live in.
I figure I paid for the money I get from Uncle Sam. My Social Security check was paid for with 40+ years of working and my VA benefits cost me 3 years, 6 months, 22 days, 5 hours and 17 minutes of my life.
So take your attitude, fold it until it is all sharp corners and put it where the sun don't shine on yourself.

[hobbit709]

38. My medical care for starters.

[hobbit709]

37. Shrub was from Connecticut.

you seem to have a lot of hate in you and not just for the GOP.

[hobbit709]

9. Aren't we just a little ray of sunshine.

[Dustlawyer]

29. Maybe the pot calling the kettle black?

Sure there are a lot of RW nut jobs here, but also a lot of great Democrats too. Tom Delay's horrible gerrymandering and the lack of support from the DRC. We see only Tea Party ads, none from National Democrats except a few Bernie ads. Kind of hard to turn blue that way.

[cannabis_flower]

7. That's nice but..

there are other nice things about Texas. The only really bad thing is our shitty Republican politicians.

[Mbrow]

10. Sounds like Idaho

I love the people and the state, but why we keep electing these clowns I'll never know.

[Cryptoad]

8. Im dreaming of a Blue Texas!

[Mbrow]

12. Thanks for the flowers,

I'm waiting for the snow to go, between that and the first flowers in our mountains we have Morels!

[jwirr]

14. I remember when I was a kid thinking of Texas as a place

that had bluebells. I had no idea what they meant but thought it would be beautiful.

Are these blue flowers what they were talking about when they said bluebells?

Thank you for a new way of looking at Texas for those of us who do not usually see it that way.

[Sophiegirl]

17. Bluebonnets

The Texas State flower. And they are beautiful.

Never heard them referred to as bluebells.

[jwirr]

19. I am dealing with a faulty memory in this but I seem to

remember there was a song. Maybe I am remembering wrong and it was Bluebonnets of Texas.

[Sophiegirl]

22. Only song that comes to mind..

..is The Yellow Rose of Texas.

[jwirr]

24. Yeah, I knew that one also and the story behind it. Oh, well

I love the video and all the flowers. We still have snow here in MN.

[Sophiegirl]

25. Brrr....

I long for temps above 65 here.

[hobbit709]

18. Those are blue bonnets.

These are blue bells

[jwirr]

20. Thank you.

[Sophiegirl]

21. Not many Bluebonnets where I grew up.

San Angelo.

I've lived in VA since 1987.

[DhhD]

26. Varieties of Bonnets-Wild Lupines

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVyKtkfpWCFQANXxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Varieties+of+Lupine+Flowers&fr=sfp

[redstatebluegirl]

27. We didn't live in Texas but

when Lady Bird encouraged people to plant wild flowers my Mom went nuts. She had a plastic container full of seeds and when we went on vacation, by car like everyone else back then, she would see a bare place on the highway and would pull the car over for us to throw out some seeds. I'd like to think there are still some flowers coming up from that time at some rest stop in Missouri or Colorado . There are some lovely places in Texas, many thanks to Lady Bird Johnson.

[2naSalit]

28. I sure noticed the difference

over many years of driving across the state in all directions... so much nicer to see all those flowers along the many miles of a very large state.

One thing about Texas that I will always remember is stopping out along the border, probably a couple hours from Van Horn, shut the whole rig down and got out to admire the full moon. What I heard amazed me, the sound of millions of mocking birds seemed to fill the sage desert which seemed endless itself, glowing in the moonlight. That was awesome.

[Lodestar]

39. Turn Texas BLUE!!!! n/t