Still sitting at home recovering from surgery, but at my two-week checkup the doctor did okay me to start back doing some light hiking but no strenuous up or down hills.
Since it is wildflower season I decide to load up the trusty little doggy Quincy and we are going to hit some of the paved trails around here and scout out some wildflowers.
Our first trip was to Gilleland Creek in Pflugerville. We hit a large bed of bluebonnets there. After watching some people doing photo ops with their dogs sitting in the Bluebonnets it was our turn.
Not going to happen.
Next we took a little hike at Rabb Park on the Round Rock Brushy Creek East Trail. We found quite a few varieties of wild flowers here.
Next, we went to Old Settlers Park in Round Rock and we hit the motherlode!
In our area the dead-end streets of our neighborhood have been extended for a new development. Besides giving me a quicker, easier escape from our neighborhood,(depending on where I am going), the construction area gives us more walking distance about one and a half miles now as opposed to about eight tenths before. And there are a lot of wildflowers that have been graded to the side and are growing like weeds!
Now in Texas the word Texas is put in front of a lot of things especially wildflowers as though they don’t grow anywhere else. For example “Texas Lantana” which is exactly the same as the lantana we had in our yard in Greenville North Carolina although that was known as “Patriot Star Lantana”. So enter the lowly dandelion. I kept hearing of the “Texas Dandelion”, and I thought, Really? Turns out that there is such a thing, and it is totally different than most dandelions although those grow here also. So here it is…..
I need to get out of the city and into the woods!
So, for my final look at wildflowers I decided to go to the very tame Miller Springs at Belton. Didn’t find as many flowers as I expected in it’s wide-open prairies but none the less got some good shots.
Back on the trail somewhat. I’m excited to get out there!
Old Man Wandering 