Community Chat

[cheriere]

The first of flowers to bloom here without fail is always around Easter, the yellow lily.  They come up in fields, by the roadside, everywhere.  I remember picking bouquets of them for my mother as a little girl.

[Enufstuff]

@On It  Those flowers are beautiful, such a gorgeous shade of blue.

 Living in the Northeast and never having traveled to Texas, I have not seen Bluebonnets before.  So pretty.

[On It]

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@Enufstuff wrote:

@On It  Those flowers are beautiful, such a gorgeous shade of blue.

 Living in the Northeast and never having traveled to Texas, i have not seen Bluebonnets before.  So pretty.

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I am glad you saw these. In the areas of Texas that are primarily ranch land, the bluebonnets cover large patches of the land. It looks like a huge blue lake. They bloom in the spring, go to seed, and are not seen until the next spring. Ranchers consider them a weed because cattle won't eat them. A field of bluebonnets is pictured below.

[Enufstuff]

@MamaWick   That is so sad that uninformed people make such decisions. They have no conception of what they are doing to the environment. They probably don't even care.  

 Many plants and flowers, lost forever. Such destruction !

That in turn, affect all the animals. I hope that some of your bluebonnets come back.

 So many species of birds and insects are now extinct and many more endangered as their habitat is being destroyed.

  As more building of McMansions around here, have taken habitat, we are seeing animals who have lost their homes.

  We have turkeys, coyotes, wild cats, deer that were never seen around here before. Coyotes have taken many cats and small dogs. We can no longer let them out. I had a cat taken in 2006.

  My cats always loved running and exploring our property, hiding in the gardens, climbing the trees and lounging on our wrap around porches.  No more. Now, they can only look out the windows.

With so many flowers being lost, the bees are endangered by that and chemicals that people are using kills the bees and other insects. We don't see as many butterflies anymore.

Humans are slowly killing Mother earth. It is very sad to see.

[Enufstuff]

@On It    That is amazing!

               In a town, not far from us, is a field as large as that, just filled with sunflowers, every year. People travel there to see it.