The Lee Family: Bluebonnets!

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Bluebonnets!

A few weeks ago I read about the Bluebonnet Festival held in Ennis, Texas, which is just over an hour south of our house. Apparently this is one of the best years for bluebonnets in North Texas in years and there was a lot of postings on Facebook about the bluebonnets in Ennis in particular. Usually the hill country around Austin is the best, but apparently the area around Ennis and surrounding areas is even better this year. I visited the field in Grapevine we've been to the past two years but it was almost bare. There were a few small patches of bluebonnets but otherwise it was just a field of grass and mustard. I thought the Ennis Bluebonnet Festival sounded like a lot of fun, however we had too much already scheduled that weekend so we decided to go yesterday, a week later, instead. It worked out perfectly since the bluebonnets actually peaked this weekend!

The drive went by quickly and both girls snoozed away as we drove the hour or so to the cute town of Ennis. The town's website listed two routes to take to view and walk in the bluebonnets - the north and the south, with the northern drive having a better field to walk among and the southern offered a lot more bluebonnets to look at. We decided to drive the northern route since we wanted to take photos of the girls in the fields. We were not disappointed! It was incredible and I can't even imagine taking the southern route since there were so many bluebonnets to look at. We stopped next to a field that had a fence around it but we could easily sneak the girls into it. Sofia made it through and we took a few photos of her, but Olivia was determined to keep sleeping, so we left her alone. We also took Sofia's photo with a longhorn head that was being used as a prop for a vendor taking photos of his goods for a website. We continued on the drive and everywhere we looked were vast fields of bluebonnets - it was remarkable! We finally made it to "the" field that we could walk in and it was incredible. There were several groups already in the field taking pictures, but because the field was on a hill, we were able to take over an area and take pictures without anyone else in them. Olivia was still pretty groggy and we had a hard time getting her to smile, but we did capture a few cute photos of her and especially of both girls. Sofia had a great time acting like she was a giraffe and running through the flowers. Olivia held onto her new lion which we bought at a yard sale that morning for 25 cents. It was really a beautiful field and a perfect day to be there! Along the drive there were several fields of animals - cows, longhorns, horses, goats, sheep and we stopped near the goats to feed them and look at them. It was a lot of fun and the girls loved it! As we headed back toward home, CK and I decided we need to make this journey every year! It was fantastic!

Visiting the first field