Our central Texas Spring is well under way. We’ve had a nice crop of wildflowers and everything is green and growing.

The wildflower blooms, especially, are due to good rains we had last fall and a nice wet winter. The good rain has continued into the spring and it’s making the entire area look great.

There are many yellow flowers in the landscape and they’re certainly hard to tell apart. I spotted these in a corner of my backyard. I think they’re Four-nerve Daisy (Tetraneuris scaposa), but its hard to be sure. They are pretty and bright and these are covered with the drops form a light morning rain.

Rain Drop Covered Daisies

Yesterday morning was foggy and I saw these horses grazing in a nice pasture with pink flowers in the foreground as I drove by at 60 mile per hour. I turned around and went back to get the shot. I like the tranquility conveyed by the scene.

I think the flowers might be pink evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa). The flowers open in the evening and close the following morning. I could have the identification wrong, but maybe they’re still open in the morning because the sun is hidden by the fog.

Foggy Morning Horses

Finally, I’ve got another bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) landscape to share. This is a house in our neighborhood. I think the bluebonnets and large rocks create a nice foreground for the stone house in the background. It’s a lovely place.

These bluebonnets all appear fairly uniform, but they can actually vary quite a bit. I’ve been paying attention this year and some are a dark blue, some are a light blue, some are more purple, and some are white. It must be normal genetic variation, but they’re all pretty.

It’s fairly late in the season for bluebonnets but these are going strong. Many stands I’ve seen recently seem to have peaked.