Set 2 of My
Favorite Texas Wildflowers
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
Late March is dreary up here in the White Mountains this particular Year 2012. Normally, everything is still white with a deep snow cover, but this year the snow cover is mostly gone. Everything is dark brown, medium brown, light brown, tan, and beige. The only color is on the birds awaiting spring time.
A forlorn blue jay in my front lawn waiting for June
In February our birds were hungry
So once again in March I will instead feature Texas wildflowers. I lived in Texas for 24 years and looked forward every spring to the carpets of wild flowers coming to life in the hill country north of San Antonio. There are many types of wild flowers in those hills, but the best known is the Texas Blue Bonnet that seems to be a smaller version of our dense Lupine in New England --- but our Lupine do not bloom until June. Texas comes into color much earlier in the year.
This year Trinity University's Public Information Officer Venetia DuBose sent me 12 photographs of the current wildflowers in bloom on the Trinity campus. I will begin with those 12 photographs. Thank you so much Vee.
Vee DuBose 01
Vee DuBose 02
Vee DuBose 03
Vee DuBose 04
Vee DuBose 05
Vee DuBose 06
Vee DuBose 07
Vee DuBose 08
Vee DuBose 09
Vee DuBose 10
Vee DuBose 11
Vee DuBose 12
Some years back my secretary, Debbie Bowling, sent me the following blue bonnet
photograph from the hill country
This is a typical stone farmhouse in the hill country
These buildings were often built by German immigrant farmers
The rocky sea bed land is more conducive to cattle than to grain crops
My friend Paula Ward sent me some hill country wild flower photographs
Paula Ward 01
Paula Ward 02
Paula Ward 03
In June I will feature our long-awaited wild flowers in the White Mountains of
New Hampshire
Bob Jensen 01
Bob Jensen 02
Bob Jensen 03 (The Iris Farm down the road)
Bob Jensen04 (lupine up close)
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Bob Jensen 06 (Iris)
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Bob Jensen 08
Photographer Wes Lavin sent me the following wildflower picture taken up here
some time ago
This is The Iris Farm down the road (sadly this farm is now vacant)
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
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The Life of Flowers --- http://player.vimeo.com/video/27920977?title=0&%3bbyline=0&%3bportrait=0href=
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
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---
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address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
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