Wildflowers redeux

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Several friends had taken a road trip to see wild flowers and reported that they were simply stunning south of San Antonio. So this morning we decided to try the area out and drove Interstate 10, 65 miles to San Antonio and then turned south. The entire trip to the city was beautiful, and there were fields of flowers almost continuous along the roadside and in the median strip. Once in the city we turned south and drove to Poteet and then circled back toward the west and finally back toward Kerrville.

I do not have the words to paint you a picture of what scenes regaled us along the way( see HW2 for more description). There were so many flowers in huge fields that we stopped and took picture after picture. Our friends Ron and Julie had described one field as looking like a lake until you got closer and realized it was a field of blue bonnets. What a perfect description. Foxy took lots of pictures, and some will get added to this blog. The colors of the flowers varied from yellows to golds, pinks to red, purple to blue. Now we have to learn the names of the flowers we have seen.

Finally we stopped in Bandera, the Cowboy Capital of Texas, for a late barbecue lunch at Busbees. It was good eating, as we had sandwiches of barbecued ham and brisket with cole slaw for a side. The whole thing was washed down with a little something, and then we strolled about the town for a bit before heading home to Kerrville. What a fantastic day, and such a treat to see 1-200 miles of gorgeous wild flowers. Life is beautiful, take time to smell the flowers. Happy travels.