A favorite flower growing in McKinney Falls State Park.

Clematis texensis
A favorite flower growing in McKinney Falls State Park.

Clematis texensis
I returned home with lots — hundreds! — of flower photographs from the Dallas Blooms event at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.




Our honeysuckle vine is starting to bloom. The bees are already busy.



More flower photos from my visit to the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden for the Dallas Blooms 2017 spring event. It was my first time there so I got a map and then walked all over those 66 acres, mostly ignoring the map.




Bluebonnet season is upon us, earlier than usual as our winter didn’t last very long. We’ve had good rains so I’m hoping there will be lots of bluebonnets. Here is one to start off the season.

On the shore of Lake Buchanan.