Wildflowers Part 2
April 4, 2009
Last weekend Steve and I grabbed cameras and took the pictures in Wildflowers1. Today while Steve and our youngest were off camping with Boy Scouts I went out and took the pictures below.
I started just east of where we ended last weekend going from Houston up through Tomball, along the Montgomery Trace then over ot Huntsville State Park where the troop was camping (see Huntsville gallery - no scouts in the photos, just the park and campground) then down State Highway 75 east of 45 then west over to Conroe, around the lake and back to 45 for the return trip home.
One thing I noticed is that once east of Montgomery I saw very few bluebonnets but lots and lots of daisys.
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First roadside blooms on Highway 149
Closer view
This was the first group of white flowers I saw.
Pasture
Not strictly speaking wildflowers but thought the moss was kewl.
Most common roadside viewing.
Unlike along Highway 6 the wildflowers on the side of these Farm to Market roads are volunteers so they tend not to be as dense as the bluebonnets sowed by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Anyone who has never been to southeast Texas don't realize the vast pine wood forests we have here as soon as you get out of the Houston metropolitan area.
Green everywhere this time of year.
Even without sowing there are penty of volunteer wildflowers around.
Such as the verge along 149.
Clearings that aren't mowed or used for grazing tend to get wildflowers.
Today most of the fields were mixed like this one with showy primrose, daisy and indian paintbrush.
I was given permission to go on this person's land to get a field further from the road.
Another view of the same field.
If I had worn hiking boots I'd have been tempted to see what was deeper in the woods, especially since I believe this path goes along a lake about a mile down the trail.
Pink, green and yellow marching to the trees.
Small blue flowers were everywhere. These aren't bluebonnets or bluebells, at least not like the pictures I've seen of bluebells on the net.
You have to admit that this is very serene.
Another view
I have no idea what these little red flowers are. They look sort of like strawberries before they open into little, tiny red flowers.
This was one of the few fields of bluebonnets I saw east of I-45. This was taken maybe 5 miles south of the Sam Houston stature on Highway 75.
Same Hwy 75 field.
Closer view
This is the last large field of bluebonnets that I saw near Conroe.
Closer view of Conroe field.
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