White Prickly Poppies on Foster Rd by myrrhluz
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Wildflower hunt, March 26th, 2010 continued...
My friend and I spent some time communing with the blue bonnets (see my last post) and then I dropped her off at her home and set out on my quest to find more wildflowers. There is a site (http://lone-star.net/wildflowers/sightings.htm) where people post if they have seen wildflowers. There had been a good sighting of phlox at a church in Cheapside, TX. That is about 80 miles east of San Antonio, so I had charted a route, on the back roads to get there. I enjoy charting routes. I don't always follow them, especially when they are onto farm roads which I sometimes can't find, but I like charting them just the same. I was only two miles east of Loop 410 when I saw a field of mostly White Prickly Poppies. I like this picture best of the ones I took. If you look closely, you can see cattle in the field further on.
San Antonio has two loop roads around it, Loop 410 and an outer loop road, 1604. Development in the city is almost exclusively taking place in the northern part of the city. The area between 410 and 1604 in the northeast, north central, and northwest, is totally developed. The city is now creeping ever further north beyond Loop 1604. The area south of the city, once you get outside of Loop 410, is sparsely populated. Loop 1604 is a major highway in the north and often a parking lot during rush hour. In the south, it is a two-lane road going through farmland.
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blondeblurr
What a wondrous name - calling a town in TX 'Cheapside' ? LOL, just my fancy imagination ... when you think Texas, you would think 'Oil' and when you find 'Oil' - you would think RICH ;) hmmm! I am joining a few other readers here, never heard of Prickly Poppy? But what I really like are those 'bending over' trees ;) probably very windy or soft wood perhaps - your neighbourhood is full of wonders, Lucinda ... BB PS apologies being a bit late again, fashionably late so ! ;)