Field-of-dreams bluebonnets at Muleshoe Bend

Bring on the blues! A glorious bumper crop of Texas bluebonnets is in full bloom at Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area in Spicewood.… Read More

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This spring has been a bust for bluebonnets along highways, and we can thank the ongoing drought for that. But this week I got wind of a good patch out at Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area in Spicewood. We texted friends and spontaneously made the hour-long drive northwest of Austin on Wednesday evening.

We arrived just before the golden hour. It may have been April Fools’ Day, but no joke — the bluebonnets were amazing! As I stepped out of the car, their sweet fragrance washed over me. I hadn’t smelled bluebonnets like that since the bumper-crop fields of 2010.

A steady breeze made each flower wave a friendly hello.

Lake Travis curves along the ridge beyond, adding its own line of blue.

Because it was a weekday evening, not a lot of people were there. I was happy to watch others delighting over the flowers…

…and taking Easter photos with their pups.

One more — what a cutie!

Bluebonnets sparkle with white-tipped indigo flower spikes, like whitecaps on a blue lake.

Here and there, the flowers mingled with last season’s grasses.

Along the lake, a stand of willows or something were still bare — a color block of tan against the greens and blues. Birds shot past like brown torpedoes.

Maybe cedar waxwings?

It was glorious, an iconic Texas spring scene.

We took a few selfies in the ‘bonnets.

Our friends, Cat and Derrick, demonstrated a more vigorous bluebonnet pose.

David and Derrick got all the way up into blue sky. Now that’s bluebonnet enthusiasm!

And why not? I mean, look! Imagine a sweet floral fragrance too.

As the sun set, the blues deepened. A 360-turn reveals hills in the distance…

…live oaks along the road…

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