I must admit--when I first moved down to Texas, I was anticipating it being a boring, flat landscape. No mountains, no trees, basically just heat, dirt and tumbleweeds. Boy was I wrong. I've come to learn that Texas is beautiful, and diverse. Springtime down here is amazing. Unending fields of wildflowers lay out in colorful blankets beneath the steadfast oaks on gently rolling hills. Bluebonnets, paintbrushes, Indian blankets, buttercups and primroses paint the land. And then there's my favorite--Texas blue-eyed grass; a little six-petaled wildflower of cornflower blue with a sunny yellow center that is rimmed in cobalt. I discovered this overlooked little beauty while tromping through the grass to take a photograph of a field of bluebonnets. Bluebonnets get all the glory down here. But Texas blue-eyed grass is a treasure-- a native grass that grows about 8 inches high in little clumps (like ready-made bouquets). I even dug some up and transplanted it in my garden. Ssshhh
