Friday, March 27, 2015

Here at home....

 
 
 There are a lot of frogs...
 
 
 
 
Beautiful White Prickly Poppies!
 
 



 Lots of color!
 
 
 Everywhere you walk bluebonnets!
 
 
 New wildflowers blooming every day!


 The creek has calmed down and so nice to sit and watch it flow!
 
 
 Baby Cacti are being born!
 
 
 Lots of variety!
 
 
 Signs of love!
 
 
 Beauty!
 
 
Tranquility abounds....
 
 
 
I love our place and I love Texas!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Road tripp'in Weds...

 
My morning started out with mosquitoes...
 
 
 
Then I had to go order some furniture and decided to take a little road trip looking for wildflowers...
 
 
I was hoping to find a longhorn in the Bluebonnets but found horses instead. I think the horses are prettier. Now if they would have posed for me it would have been even better!
 
 



 I went up to Moulton and stopped for lunch here. In my opinion this place has the best Chicken fried steak. Lunch was oh so good! I use to go here with my Mom and it brought back some bitter sweet memories, she loved to eat here.
 
 
 Then I found the best batch of bluebonnets and Indian paint brushes to date! Oh it was glorious and smelled oh so sweet!!
 
 
 









 Just down the road is Hochheim Texas


 Busy bee...
 
 
 I hated to leave...
 
 
 Closer to home I found this big old Oak Tree at a road side rest stop...
 
 
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church near Meyersville Texas, the older church.
 
 
I so needed this drive and just loved the wildflowers.
 
(Please do not use these photos without my permission, thank you)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Mid-day around here....

Always make you stop and take a deep breath!
 
I love Texas!
 
 
 
 
 
 


Sunday, March 22, 2015

Spring is officially here...

So far for the month of March we have received over 23 inches of rain...The dry creek bed is flowing the creek is flowing and flooding. The ground is saturated and everything is soaking wet! We need a little break about now to let the sun shine and let things grow. I know we have been in an extreme drought the past 2 years but getting all this rain at one time is not a good thing. It needs to pace itself out over time and not come all at once. I hope this isn't the end of the rain either but I sure wish we'd get some sun and a little break.
 
 
Michael had a friend over this past week (their spring break) and they went looking for fish in the dry creek bed that isn't dry anymore...
 
They found some bluegill in the grass.
 
I got out today (Sunday) and took some wildflower photos!
 
Buckeye in the wildflowers
 
What it looks outside our back door. I just can't bring myself to mow it down!
 
 
 
 
 
The bees are busy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Michael checking out the flooded Coleto Creek.
 
 
 
 
 
 The dogs with my boy in the wildflowers. I didn't ask Michael to pose I just went out to get photos of the flowers and they all followed me. Then Michael asked where I wanted him and I was like this is so cool. Last year I had to beg him and I still don't think I got one...

 
Later this evening I went out to see what else I could find...
Dew Berry Bloom
 

The Dew berries are going to be thick...
 

 
 
 
 Hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes have already hatched and they are waiting in the grass.
 


 A doe watching me...


 The grass is thigh high around here and so very thick. We are going to let it go to seed before we mow it down. Soon this will be fenced off and pasture for the heifers and horse!
 
 
Sure was nice to see the sun today!! Looks like it is going to be a really nice week!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Spring

Officially it isn't spring yet but in my heart and soul it is Spring!!
 
 
 
I love Spring!!
 
 
 
 
 
 


Friday, March 13, 2015

I think I finally found a Veterinarian...

Julie, my horse, use to see the vet at least once a year. She had a check up and her teeth floated. She went more often if she got sick or something happened. I also had a stock trailer back then that was road safe. My stock trailer is no longer road safe and Julie thankfully has been healthy except for last fall when she had a bout of sand colic. Emergency vet house calls are outrageously priced but it's also hard to find a vet to do house calls. Julie needs her teeth floated (filed) to keep her healthy and chewing her food like she should. On facebook last week someone posted a Mobile vet that was having a special on teeth floating. I called and we set up an appointment for him to come out. Today was the day. His name is Dr. Hanselman and his wife works with him. They did an awesome job. I also talked to him about the heifer calves and he vaccinated them for me too! It was great meeting him and his wife. It is nice to know there is a another large animal vet in the area and he makes house calls.  
His prices were reasonable too but him being mobile is awesome!!
 
 
 
 


He is out of Port Lavaca a little bit of a drive but not too bad. I hope we have a long future together and he and his wife stay in the area.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Thursday, March 12, 2015

Beautiful colors around here...

Some of these I took over at Goliad State Park and some of them I took just outside our front door this evening...The bluebonnets just started popping up last week around here and I am loving it!
 
 
















































Simply Amazing!!