Like the song says, “Beautiful Texas where the bluebonnets grow….”
In early spring the flower grows wild in fields, on Facebook, as well as beside the highway. State Highway Department sows the seeds along the highway. Winter moisture and Texas abundance of sunshine create shows that slow admiring drivers. Artists cover canvases with blue flowers showing a little bit of white.
At age 65, surrounded by Russian snow, I decided to teach myself how to paint watercolors. Most tries featured sailboats, something I remembered back in Texas and Carolina. Come spring and back in North Carolina, I tried to paint bluebonnets. Painted a sea of bluebonnets. Upon which sailed a boat with my Lone Star flag spinnaker coming at you. I bruised the flowers.
Tried again with acrylics. But that Lone Star spinnaker kept sailing at you. Truth may be we’ve got more bluebonnets than water in Texas lakes. And both bloom in spring.
