In My Head

I’ve been to the bluebonnet country and I’m inspired. Sure it takes a lot of determination to clear the calendar and actually get out of town…..even if it’s just to Bleiberville. You know Bleiberville, it’s just west of Bellville and north of Nelsonville. We were so far out into the bluebonnet country that we ran into long-time Houston Chronicle columnist and chronicler of all things “Texan,” Leon Hale, in Carmine near Winedale. Oh, I love that part of Texas. By the time I turned off at Sealy I was beginning to unwind, by the time I hit Bellville I was totally relaxed and by the time I pulled up in front of the red gate and looked down the path with lush green grasses on my left, the flower covered house with rustic wood fences in front of me and the bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes to the right of me, I was totally inspired and looking for someone to photograph.

Now that is where you come in. There are a few more spaces left next weekend in my planned bluebonnet portrait sessions and someone is going to be mighty happy that they carved out the time to get their families and/or children to the bluebonnets. This month’s Texas Monthly in its “The Manual” column (On all things “Texan”) feature says, “No Texas home is complete without a bluebonnet photograph over the mantel.”

And, although the bluebonnets are later than usual because of the colder than usual winter, those in the know say that it is going to be a banner year for them! Now you know why we endured all the cold weather; just so you would have a beautiful bluebonnet or Texas countryside portrait above your fireplace. Here are a few I Phone pictures (I was so into “just relaxin’ that I didn’t even take a camera with me. BIG mistake!) that I took while gazing around the house we are using as home base. Next year might not be the same and “right now” only happens right now.

I’m inspired! Come share it with me.