Roger & Elke Edwards Digital Photograph Galleries
WILDFLOWERS of the
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
2010
On several occasions we have journeyed through the Hill Country to partake of its scenic rolling terrain, great German food and barbecue, and of course, its beautiful dislays of springtime wildflowers. Most of those were relatively dry years, with patches of amazing and diverse flora, but never the bountiful carpets of color found in tourist books and galleries of those photographers fortunate enough to catch the good seasons. After several drought years, along came a cold and very wet autumn and winter for those parts, followed by a mild early spring: ideal conditions for what many locals called the most spectacular flower season in decades. We had to go! The explosion of wildflowers was comparable only to what we had seen a few years before in a shorter visit to Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains, but even more colorful and much larger in scale. Enjoy a selection of our photos from a Texas wildflower extravaganza...
 Bluebonnet with a pair of fillarees (Texas stork's bill). Thanks to John Marquis for ID'ing the latter! |
 One paintbrush in a field of bluebonnets |
 Prickly poppies in a scene resembling a painting |
 Bluebonnet from above |
 Grazing in fields of gold |
 Solitary phacelia atop an otherwise finished stalk |
 Texas country road in the springtime! |
 Rear lawn of 1890 Art Methodist Church |
 Indian paintbrush from above |
 Bluebonnet-covered hillside near Mason |
 Deep in the heart of Texas: Bluebonnets and pink granite |
 Looking down on a magenta spray of downy paintbrush |
 Solo bluebonnet in front of a tree trunk |
 Bindweed (morning glory family) |
 White bluebonnet cluster |
 Spiderwort flower from above...ugly name for a cool flower |
