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Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, is most singularity responsible for the propagation of wild flowers in the US and especially in the Hill Country. The flowers seen in these photos are native but without her efforts would probably be extinct by now due to overgrazing and week killers used on agricultural land.
This Red Oak is in my backyard. This photo from Nov. 2011 shows
the color it can produce
This year, a lot of acorns but NO color. Just brown leaves that fell off. Is there a correlation
between
acorns and color? Maybe I will see next year. These are the acorns the deer and turkeys were
making
a meal of.
White Prickly Poppy and Texas Yellow Stars?
This Mountain Laurel lives in my front yard.
The Texas Bluebonnet is the State Flower.
It is a member
of the Lupine Family but
this species is only found in Texas
I could have sat in the little valley and its' clear stream all day, but
unfortunately I did not bring lunch so had to leave.
Yes, I did check under the hat. No one was home.
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