We’re Home Storm Chasers

Spring is really exciting in North Texas. Wildflowers pop up, nights become warm enough to sleep with windows open, and cold dry air from the Rockies collide with warm humid air from the Gulf. That creates severe thunderstorms just about every week here in the southern tip of Tornado Alley. I’m talking loud thunder, big hail, wind that eats signs and, in isolated areas, more rain in one day than San Diego gets in one year! You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a dark green sky (that means get the horses inside now).

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Benbrook Wildflowers

We have a variety of wildflowers at this time of year. Here are a few that I picked in a field at the end of our street for Sudi during a bike ride (well, technically not while I was riding). Pretty, huh? There’s a bluebonnet, two buttercups and I don’t know what the others are called. The background is our garage wall. We painted it a sort of cappuccino color. It makes a great patio with all of our folding lawn chairs from the 70’s.

Also check out my Pretty Flowers set on flickr. I put every flower picture I’ve ever taken into it.

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