bluebonnet boys

April 8, 2012- My plans for bluebonnet pictures this year didn't exactly go as planned.  The flowers were so abundant this year and I wanted to take full advantage.  I wanted to take the boys out one evening just before sunset.  But it had been a rough couple of weeks with Casey out of town, me busy with work projects, various minor ailments for the boys and Brazos was going through a "phase".  Needless to say, by the end of most days I realized I might have good sunset lighting but I wouldn't have cooperative photo subjects, and I just didn't have it in me to fight the fight.

Instead, on our way home from church on Easter Sunday I had Casey pull over to this field and  I took a few.  The boys were dressed nice and in a good mood but the bright sunlight wasn't so favorable.  Oh well, it is what it is for this year's bluebonnet boys.

bluebonnet bliss: maternity photos

April 2010- Well, this year has to be the best on record for bluebonnets in Texas. And I couldn't be any more excited that the timing of them was right on track to take some maternity photos. My good friend and amazingly talented photographer, Tori Faulkner, took these for us. You can see more of her amazing and talented work at http://www.barnraised.com/.

This one is my favorite:
Isn't this sweet? He's going to be the best big brother ever!!
Big, big, bigger...I think I may pop!!
This one is Casey's favorite (Pecos channeling Casey Tibbs):
Pecos insisted that Brownie the stick horse needed to have his picture taken too!

My 2 favorite boys in the bluebonnets:

blue-(and maroon!!)-bonnets

April 2010- It is springtime in Texas and in a good year that means my favorite wildflower- BLUEBONNETS!!!

When we first moved here we discovered a few seed packets for bluebonnets in our boxes when we were unpacking. One was for Aggie Maroon bonnets. So we planted (i.e. tossed them on the ground and completely neglected them) at our gate. We've been so dry and drought stricken until this year that we kind of forgot about them. This year the winter rain and cold came in the right combination for them to sprout. So we have just a few lonely maroon bonnets at the gate and Pecos had to check them out and share them with you.

And here is the one and only Indian Paintbrush flower that bloomed for us this year along with one of the very few bluebonnets we have on the property:

Since we don't have many of our own bluebonnets we found a patch of nice thick ones in Doss for this photo:

bluebonnet babe

April 15, 2009- Time for the annual bluebonnet photos. This year the bluebonnets were not that great in this part of Texas. I guess the winter was too hot and dry. It was hard to find a good patch of them but we managed to find these and took our token photos anyway.