[HPFGU-OTChatter] Newsflash: bluebonnets are lupines

[Amanda Lewanski]

Amy Z wrote:

> I know the suspense was killing you all, so I thought I'd post that
> Texas bluebonnets are a species, or rather a few species, of lupine.
> And I can see why the songwriter raved about them, because they are an
> incredible deep blue such as you seldom see in flowers; the lupines
> I've seen are a paler, more common blue.  It wasn't just Regional
> Pride Gone Overboard, not that Texans are =ever= guilty of such a
> thing. . .

Let's see, Texans' options on things to be proud of....

heat
scorpions
stickers/sandspurs/other malignant plant life
heat
black widow spiders
brown recluse spiders
Tex-Mex food
rattlesnakes
bluebonnets
mesquite bushes (whoops, sorry, we call them "trees")
one, count 'em, *one* natural lake (Caddo, for the curious)
heat
Aggies
fire ants
killer bees

...what would *you* pick? (yeah, I'd go for the food, too, but you don't
paint big landscapes featuring fajitas and beans, ya know?)

--Amanda


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