Texas Wildflowers

There may be things that disqualify Texas from my “favorite states” list, but this isn’t one of them!

I’m sure this is a “spring thing” and not year ’round, but it is gorgeous now!

Coming eastbound, crossing into El Paso from New Mexico, it’s still pretty barren and desert-y.

But Texas is a REALLY big state, and by the time you start to climb up into the Hill Country in the center of the state, you start to see the wildflowers everywhere.

All along Interstate 10 you’ll see them covering the medians at the side of the road as well as the center dividers, some of which can be a quarter mile or so wide.

Yellow, red, blue, purple, white, orange, every color of the rainbow.

Sometimes it’s whole swatches of one color or the other, more often it was a mixture.

For example…

For the record, while I had a strong urge at a number of spots to pull off onto the side or the road or even the center divider to get out and take pictures, that didn’t seem particularly safe or smart. Although I did see a number of other folks doing exactly that.

But these photos were all taken at a rest stop between Kerrville and San Antonio, on the median between the rest area and the freeway. And yes, I was keeping an eye out for rattlesnakes and fire ants as well.

(Those might be two of the aforementioned things that move Texas back down the “favorite states” list…)