The Bluebonnet House
Feb 3, 2024 14:19:45 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Thank you!
Great shots. This year we had a lot of blue bonnets your photos do them justice
Great shots. This year we had a lot of blue bonnets your photos do them justice
Feb 3, 2024 14:58:31 #
dougsmithsatx wrote:
Almost every Spring, travelling south along US-281 on the northside of Marble Falls, Texas, on the right you'll notice an old abandoned stone farmhouse in a field full of the Texas state flower.
The last one is an Iconic Texas scene. What a great series.
Feb 3, 2024 19:42:06 #
Feb 3, 2024 20:03:37 #
dougsmithsatx wrote:
Almost every Spring, travelling south along US-281 on the northside of Marble Falls, Texas, on the right you'll notice an old abandoned stone farmhouse in a field full of the Texas state flower.
Spectacular shooting and gorgeous composition 🔟🔟🔟
Feb 4, 2024 06:16:24 #
oldpsych
Loc: Indianapolis
dougsmithsatx wrote:
Almost every Spring, travelling south along US-281 on the northside of Marble Falls, Texas, on the right you'll notice an old abandoned stone farmhouse in a field full of the Texas state flower.
Very nice.
Feb 4, 2024 13:21:57 #
Feb 4, 2024 15:00:03 #
dougsmithsatx wrote:
Almost every Spring, travelling south along US-281 on the northside of Marble Falls, Texas, on the right you'll notice an old abandoned stone farmhouse in a field full of the Texas state flower.
i use to live in Texas for 11 years and 3 1/2 of those years were spent in San Antonio. Every April my wife and I would go to the hill county to photograph the bluebonnets. This one old farmhouse we use to go to belonged to Mrs Lotta Roberts who raised cattle. One year we talked and I mentioned how beautiful her ranch was, which was just abput totally covered with bluebonnets, and she looked at me and said that it was the worse thing that has ever happened. She told me, That Old Lady Bird Johnson had men flying airplanes all over the ranch lands in Texas throwing flower seeds just so the state could have lots of bluebonnets. What Lady Bird didn't tell them was that by sowing all the flower seeds it actually choked out the grass from growing and of course the cattle don't graze on flowers but require grass to survive. The bluebonnets are a beautiful site during the early spring but i can see why the ranchers may view then differently. .
David
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Feb 5, 2024 12:02:24 #
dougsmithsatx wrote:
Almost every Spring, travelling south along US-281 on the northside of Marble Falls, Texas, on the right you'll notice an old abandoned stone farmhouse in a field full of the Texas state flower.
Feb 5, 2024 13:32:16 #
dougsmithsatx
Loc: San Antonio TX
Dalbon wrote:
i use to live in Texas for 11 years and 3 1/2 of t... (show quote)
I moved to Texas back in 1980 (and spent 41 of those years in San Antonio) ... first time I've heard that Lady Bird had a mini air force seed-bomb Texas ranch land. The Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) is native to the southwestern U.S., only blooms for three to four weeks in the Spring and does NOT choke out other plant life. Nor do carpets of Bluebonnets cover THAT much grazing land. The former First Lady was involved in the conservation of native Texas flora and did have a program cultivating wildflowers along Texas Highways.
Feb 7, 2024 15:07:53 #
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