Trekkin' through the Texas Hill Country - Part 2 - the wildflowers...

Yesterday, I shared the first part of our Hill Country trip here.  Today, I'm going to show some pictures of flowers.  Some of these are planted and some grow wild.  We visited the Wildseed Farm between Stonewall and Fredericksburg.  It's a beautiful farm where wildflowers are grown and the seeds harvested for sale.  Of course, lots of other things are sold as well - decorative items, food, pottery and plants.  There is a butterfly garden and fields of flowers that you can walk through.  I enjoyed it so much.  I love the wildflowers that populate this state and have since I was a little girl.  I'm not very good with naming of all of them, but our roadsides are covered in the spring with blooms.  And the colors change depending on which flowers are blooming.  On this trip, most of the flowers were yellow and red.  Earlier, the bluebonnets were the most prevalent.

The last two pictures were taken in the butterfly garden.  The smell of the blossoms was wonderful.

And, yes, this would be me at the wildflower farm.  It was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed seeing all the flower fields.

It's fitting that wildflowers fields are located near Stonewall and the LBJ Park area.  Lady Bird Johnson was a First Lady that was concerned with beautifying our country through flowers.  That may not seem like a very 'important' goal, but she felt that where flowers bloom, so does hope.  There is a Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin and Texas highways still reap the benefits of her quest to beautify our roadsides with flowers.  There is a children's book about her, Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How A First Lady Changed America.

Tomorrow, I'll share part 3 of our trip - the lovely food that we had at the bed and breakfast.