More to see in April....
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| The sheep understand a warming of the weather, too. |
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| Blue-curls |
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| Old Plainsman |
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| Bull nettle |
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| Bluebonnets with that late-season seed pod and some petals turning purple. |
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| Scarlet Beeblossom, Scarlet Gaura |
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| Hedge parsley (Torilis arvensis) |
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| Texas Vervain |
Below is a Hill Country Rain Lily, or, Prairie Lily, Rain Lily, Flor De Mayo (Cooperia pedunculata) on the left. I'm drawn to white things in nature.
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| Stork's-bill/pinweed/redstem filaree (Erodium cicutarium) past bloomtime here. |
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| Kunth’s Evening Primrose (Oenothera kunthiana) |
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| Hog plum |
Sycamores alongside a Creek.
Evening's Creek.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry
