Around the Property

Bluebonnets





Pomegranate



Walnut Tree

Harry and The Bass

Oliander

 

This is what's hapening in my yard....

 

I hope you' all have a wonderful and profitable weekend.`

~~~Happy Mother's Day~~~~

 

Till next time,

Bonjour



My Little Corner Of The World!

So....



Ennis, Texas is the bluebonnet capitol of Texas, and it just so happens,

that I live on one of the Bluebonnet Trails.

Every year, visitors from all over, converge on Ennis

for photo ops of the bluebonnets.

They bring wicker chairs and other props just to have

their photos taken in the flowers.

For the last two weeks I've had lookie-lous pulling

into my drive, photographing each other in our flowers.

Isn't it funny, I have these flowers every year and a host of several others.

I pick them, make my table pretty with them, watch our bees collect their pollen,

but mostly take them for granted.

So here you have it, bluebonnet photos without the fuel cost!

Fluffy and Red say "we love our bluebonnets".

Till next time,

stop, and really see what you have,

 bonjour

The Ennis Bluebonnet Trails

Bluebonnets

COUNTDOWN...

My town is the Bluebonnet Capitol of Texas.

For the whole month of April everywhere you look you'll see bluebonnets.

On the side of the highway, in open fields, in my yard,
acres upon acres of bluebonnets.

Mixed in with the bluebonnets are indian paint brushes and
a host of other wildflowers

that I should know the names of but, sadly I don't.

You can go to the Ennis Visitor's Bureau and pick up a map
that lists over 40 miles of drivable trails
for viewing this bluebonnet phenomenon.  

I live on one of these trails.

There's even a sign at the top of the hill that says so!

On the weekends there's a steady stream of visitors
out viewing and taking pictures of the wildflowers.

When I first came to Texas, and this little town, I did the same,

 yep,

 had my picture taken sitting in a patch of wildflowers......

Sounds sweet, doesn't it?

Know what I got?

A bad case of chiggers!!!!

What the heck is a chigger, I had never heard of a chigger!

(Any of various small, six-legged larvae of mites of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on insects, humans, and other vertebrates. The chigger's bite produces a wheal that is usually accompanied by severe itching. Also called chigoe, harvest bug, harvest mite, jigger2, red bug.)

Gnawing, biting, itchy little critters is what they are!

I was miserable for weeks.

 (Well maybe not for weeks, I am a bit of a drama queen).

Don't even know what happened to that picture.

Anyway,

Every time I see a family, with their cute little girl, dressed in her Sunday best,

out taking her picture in the wildflowers, I think to myself,

YOU'RE GONNA BE SORRY!!!

So, keep my story in mind if you have a hankering 

to have your picture taken in a field of wild flowers!!!

So,

 this weekend is,
 "The Bluebonnet Arts & Craft Festival"

where tens of thousands of people (said so on the visitor bureau's website)

come to pick up maps of the trails and purchase bluebonnet related stuff.

I have bluebonnet related stuff....
I carry a bluebonnet soap.

I guess you know where I'll be spending the next two days.
(Booth # 9 if you want to come visit me).

We always do well at this show

and,

 there really are a lot of visitors

 and,

 since it's in my home town,

it's a no brainer!

Soap Display

Time to label some soap and pack the totes.
(Oh no, the rhyming thing again).

See you'all Monday!
Bonjour