Wildflowers are a bloom here in Austin. They seem to be everywhere right now.
These are some that I picked in a field near the small playground at the park.
Now imagine a ton of pictures on flickr with the kids playing and sitting in a field of mostly blue and bits of the red and pink (like the ones above) … That is what you will have to do because I did not LISTEN to Joshua!
Two nights ago Joshua came home from a run and told me about a great field near our house with a ton of Texas Wildflowers in it. He suggested for me to go the next morning and take some pictures – because he thought it would get mowed soon.
Well it was really windy yesterday morning, Wesley was still sick and I was feeling very tired – so I did not go to take pictures.
Later that afternoon we headed out to the little playground (without the camera). I was fearful of the trip because neither Jillian or Wesley had taken a nap, but we needed fresh air and I wanted Wesley to get some of his built up energy out (he had been running a fever of 102 for the past 2 days and was really crabby – but as it turns out he has strep throat – we took him to the doctor after our trip to the park). Jillian fell asleep in the Ergo and Wesley walked/ran the way there.
Before we could even see the playground and field with the flowers, I heard the lawnmower. I thought…ok they will just mow around the flowers BUT…damn Joshua was right, they are mowing!
Sure enough there was a man working on the field. Wesley and I went to an area that he was not at and picked some of the beautiful “weeds” that were to be mowed down.
Hopefully we will get some pictures of the kiddos in the Texas blue bells soon – we better go soon or they might all be mowed down.
Tags: Austin, texas, weeds, wildflowers