Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
Just to add a layer to this story, this is the time of year these little beauties (the flowers........the flowers) bloom all over the place, including highway sides and centers. All too frequently you'll see folks whip the wheel hard and head for the shoulder presumably to take pics. Even saw one family had their kids rolling around in them..............ruining them for anyone else. Guess not enough of this kind of security detail there.........
Do I remember right that Lady Bird Johnson fueled the Blue Bonnet explosion, providing wild flower seed to school kids, and encouraging them to scatter them along the highways and farm to market roadways, and to other states, too?