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Wildflowers everywhere
Posted Mar 13, 2007
It's now the beginning of wildflower season here in Texas, and the bluebonnets are really starting to bloom.
They're the state flower in Texas and can bloom as early as February. While they can grow in just about every part of the state, in West Texas, they tend to only grow from seed and aren't quite as dark as the ones that spring up in East Texas. There are also many different species of the flower, ranging in color from dark blue to even some white bluebonnets. The best way to describe them is that they look like lilacs, but are smaller, and the blue petals are shaped more like bonnets than flowers.
Bluebonnets also have two legends that I know of, one of them is about a pioneer girl who loses her favorite doll (with a blue bonnet) on the prairie. A few days later, there were the flowers all around the prairie with blooms in the shape of bonnets. I'm going to have to research the other legend.
Not only are the bluebonnets are in bloom, so are other wildflowers such as the Indian paintbrush, a red-orange flower that looks like a paintbrush tip, and wine cups, wine colored flowers that open up to the shape of a cup. I don't know if we've had enough rain or too much of it for primroses, which are pink tipped greenish flowers that tend to be shaped along the lines of dogwood blossoms.
In the summer, there'll be Indian blankets, Mexican hats and Blackeyed Susans to enjoy as well, so it'll be a colorful season.
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Flying away on a wing and a prayer
Posted Feb 9, 2007
Well, this is my first journal entry, but I've been fairly busy with work and other hobbies.
Right now, I've been planning a few jewelry projects for possible fund-raisers to raise money in Relay for Life. This event, held all night, raises money for the American Cancer Society. It's a lot of fun, but it's also for a very good cause.
Also, I've been rewatching shows of my favorite series, "The Greatest American Hero." The show, filmed in 1981-83, featured a school teacher named Ralph Hinkley who receives a suit from a group of aliens (called green guys) with unearthly powers and an instruction book on how to use it. Unfortunately, he lost the book and has to learn how to use the suit through trial and error. He's teamed up with an FBI agent named Bill Maxwell and has a girlfried, Pam Davidson. The show is quite fun and mixes comedy and action rather well.
Someone on that message board wondered if they were the same, but "GAH" and "My Hero" aren't. Ralph isn't an alien, nor are the powers in him, just the suit. This can and does cause problems for him, such as his head isn't protected and he gets knocked out a couple of times. Despite the problems, Ralph, Bill and Pam work together to solve mysteries, cases, and even stop a nuclear war happening. Unfortunately, the show lasted only three seasons and 43 episodes.
It's now celebrating it's 26th anniversary, and there are plans to celebrate it with a chat. I've been helping them with it, so it's been pretty busy in my free time there as well.
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