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Nileyears 71F
2379 posts
1/13/2016 5:31 pm
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Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
1/13/2016 5:46 pm
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It's a big thing here in Texas for people to get in the middle of these flowers and take photos every Spring.....but they sometimes forget to be on the lookout for snakes!!


bondjam33 70M
840 posts
1/13/2016 6:44 pm

 Interestingly it was an initiative from Ladybird Johnson to plant native flowers beside the highways, in particular the Bluebonnet Lupins - and in the pic above it seems to have turned out beautifully.


Maudie1 74F
8151 posts
1/13/2016 8:03 pm

 Really beautiful Nile I love that shade of blue. We are in Sydney at the moment. The parks are full of fabulous flowers. Does the heart good just to look at them.


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
1/13/2016 8:53 pm
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Me either, I've had a few close encounters with rattlesnakes and copperheads.


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
1/13/2016 9:08 pm
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All kinds of snakes puzzles, but Copperheads seem to be everywhere, also rattlesnakes, rat snakes, or chicken snakes (they are one in the same, but not poisonous) Bull snakes, cotton mouths, and the list goes on!!

A lot of our country roads look like that here, that road in the picture looks like FM 934 out of Osceola, Tx. I love it in the Spring time here, everywhere you look you see flowers!!


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
1/13/2016 9:20 pm
    Quoting bondjam33:
    Interestingly it was an initiative from Ladybird Johnson to plant native flowers beside the highways, in particular the Bluebonnet Lupins - and in the pic above it seems to have turned out beautifully.
Yes, Lady Bird and Helen Hayes, the actress, both started the organization to preserve native plants and beautify our highways. I think it's now called the Lady Bird Johnson National Wildflower Center, or something like that? They did a good job, the highways and roadsides look good, well, here they do, the desert areas, not so much.


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
1/13/2016 9:22 pm
    Quoting Maudie1:
    Really beautiful Nile I love that shade of blue. We are in Sydney at the moment. The parks are full of fabulous flowers. Does the heart good just to look at them.
Thanks Maudie!! Hope you are taking some pics of those beautiful blooms.


bijou624

1/14/2016 2:34 am

 What beautiful flowers growing along the road like that.


Nileyears replies on 1/14/2016 10:58 am:
They are a beautiful sight to see every year, a sign that Spring has sprung!!

Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
1/14/2016 11:05 am

 Hahaha, I did say it was the state flower, right above the pictures, I must be losing it! I have had my grandson everyday since my son in law went into the hospital, believe me, he's a handful.


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
3/23/2016 9:39 pm

 Lovely, Rae. I was going to ask where you are, but decided to look. I hope to hear from you.
Elaine Shuel




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