Texas/Oklahoma Wildflowers

[Mark Bolerjack]

I have been working an audit in Durant, OK the last 2 weeks (home on the weekend). Betty and Tamara drove down yesterday to spend the night with me. We went to Atoka, where we pastored for 2 1/2 years, to see a good friend and eat good mexican food. This afternoon after finishing work for the week, we drove about 20 miles to the Dennison dam, which forms Lake Texoma. I had seen the field of wildflowers last week but did not have my camera with me. I had it today. Here are a few pictures. This is a mixture of Texas Bluebonnets and Oklahoma Indian paintbrush.

[Cecil Wallace]

Thanks, Mark.
Those are beautiful flowers when massed like that.
The Paintbrushes are blooming here in Northeast Texas, but we don't have many Bluebonnets. The soil conditions here are not right for the Bluebonnets, but they are blooming from the Texhoma area all the way down through central Texas.

[Mark Bolerjack]

No, they were not as bright as the ones Scott posted from south central Texas a few weeks ago. I just figured that it was toward the end of the "season" for bluebonnets.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

They look good Mark! I like it when the Indian Paintbrushes are mixed in with the Bluebonnets!

[John Kennedy]

Can still remember, after more than 40 years, driving in and around Austin in the springtime - the plains would be covered by bluebonnets. Given what's happened with Austin, they're probably covered by strip malls now. Good pix.