Bluebonnets Are Here!

Bluebonnets, bluebonnets, with your coats so blue,

Your white eyes are shining through the silvery dew.

We know you’re a dolly offered for the rain.

We know you’ll return again to Texas in the spring.

Spring is Here!!! In Texas Bluebonnets (the state flower) always announce the arrival of spring. It is always my favorite part of the springtime.

The legend of the bluebonnets state that an orphan Comanche Native American Girl gave up her doll as a sacrifice so that the rain would come and end the famine. Th words under the above picture was a song that I learned in 2nd grade and it comes to my mind every time I see a bluebonnet.

This year the bluebonnets are not as plentiful as in other years. The fall rain has a lot to do with the bluebonnet production. Two years ago there were fields and fields of bluebonnets due to the abundance of the previous fall rain. That year we the fields were blue with the thousands of bluebonnets. There is nothing like it.

This year I am happy seeing the small groups of bluebonnets by the side of the roads. For us it is a sign that spring is here.

Liz