Have you ever been to Texas in the spring
Where bluebonnets bloom
And birds or on the wing?
And if you haven't been to Texas in the spring, then you need to get yourself there. That's where I was the last weekend--and the 175 miles from Austin to Port Lavaca were riot of color--fields and hills of bluebonnets, then bluebonnets and paintbrush, then giving way to paintbrush only as we got nearer the coast. Sprinkled here and there were what Texans call pink buttercups, but the rest of the world calls evening primroses. Then these bright, bright yellow small daisy-like flowers and bunches of yellow blooming wild alfalfa. If you saw it in a painting, you'd think the artist had exaggerated. But this artist--is known for flamboyant exaggeration, no more obvious than in a Texas spring. Get yourself there, all ya'll. As I sit here in this Colorado cafe, I'm happy to see tulips in bloom--and some trees trying their best to spring into leaf, but it's pretty grey and brown here. This is the time to be in Texas.
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