Today's title is an homage to the recently deceased Maurice Sendak, which is probably obvious to anyone who was a child or had a child after 1963. For the past few weeks I've been trying to remember to take the camera on my morning dog walk to get some pictures of the wildflowers in a nearby park. Today, I actually remembered as I was walking out the door.
All of the nice spring rains have been fantastic for wildflowers. I didn't get a chance to blog about the bluebonnets back in late March/early April since this blog was just a twinkle in my eye back then. I nearly missed these too (you can see a lot of them going to seed in the pictures), but I caught some in time.
These pictures were all taken in East Austin's Springdale Park where I take Sally and Penny every morning that it's my turn to walk them so we can dodge giant piles of feces left either by other dogs (owned by inconsiderate people) or by inconsiderate people.
It's
about time for the Parks Dept. to do a little maintenance on the trail.
All the overgrown vegetation attracts spiders so I'm constantly doing the
get-this-spider-web-off-of-me dance, which kind of freaks out the dogs.
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| This overgrown nature trail leads to a meadow. Those marijuana-esque plants aren't nearly as interesting as they look. The dogs do like to eat the leaves though. |
I was lucky to
get some of these pictures without losing an arm thanks to a curious
jack rabbit driving Sally and Penny insane at the end of their leashes.
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| If your are persistent enough to fight through the brush and spider webs, the trail eventually leads to this area. |
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| Coreopsis |
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| Indian (I think they mean "Native American") blanket |
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| Mexican hat (None of the Mexicans that I know wear hats that look like this) |
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