Springtime in Texas!

[BillG_in_TX]

You know how people are always taking a picture of their baby sitting in the wildflowers? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

Bandit adopted us on our photo outing. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

Lest we forget what state we're in: /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

No trains allowed! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

This big boy lives at the berry farm down the road. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[MossRoad]

Great pics! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Bill we have to be thankfull that days like these only come a couple of times in the spring and in the fall. If we didn't have our tornados and that sunshine in the summer along with the wind in the winter it'd be like NYC. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

This is the view I get working up here a mile the way the crow flies from the Red River.

The Red Bud is about sixty years old. The lady who lives here planted it soon after she moved in, 1939. The Post Oak framing it in the picture is the second largest Post Oak in Texas, which we know is the known world. It's been estimated at seven hundred and fifty years old.

I find it fascinating to stand in the shade of a tree that was an adult two hundred years before Columbus wore diapers.

 

[JohnMiller3]

Hi Bill,

Those are sure pretty pictures of your fields... they don't need cutting... just viewing pleasure... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

Harv,

Those are two fabulous trees. I'm sure that the lady of the house feels like they are family after 64 years together. Quite a heritage.

We saw lots of red buds in full bloom driving down 281 from Hico to Burnet (my favorite drive) this past weekend, some as big as that one. The flowers aren't in full bloom yet until you get all the way down to Marble Falls. Bluebonnets are in control in most places this year, and the yucca is in full blossom all over Backbone Ridge.

Any season in the Hill Country is a blessing, but spring has to be my favorite. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

John,

They're pretty now, but they get pretty scraggly after they go to seed in a few weeks. Then we'll put the new cutter through it's paces.

Did you notice how the Indian Paintbrush is <font color="orange"> Kubota Orange</font> this year? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif