Newsflash: bluebonnets are lupines

[pbnesbit at msn.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
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> 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

I'd pick the bluebonnets any day.  But Amanda, you left out something-
-along with the Texas heat comes Texas humidity.  (At least in some 
parts of the state) And another thing for Texas to be proud of:  some 
of the *nicest* people I've met in the course of my job are from 
Texas.  

SC shares some of these things with Texas.  We don't have the Aggies, 
the killer bees, the mesquite bushes, or the bluebonnets, and we're 
blessed with an abundance of lakes and rivers. (most of which are 
natural)  But we do have the heat and humidity.  

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker 

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