I never really thought I was attached to Texas when I lived here the first time (actually 2nd time, I couldn’t really remember being born here). Junior high through high school, I did what I could to not let this state define who I was. I was an ex-Navy Brat who couldn’t shake her wanderlust. I felt suffocated in our small, conservative town. When I left for college at Mizzou, I didn’t think I was ever moving back to Texas.
To keep this blog post short, let’s just jump to the part where I DID move back. And I brought my husband and my tiny 8 week old first-born with me. Turns out, I missed it. And now it feels like home.
I still don’t feel comfortable saying we will be here forever, and I don’t really align with a lot of what people think this state represents, but I love it. I truly do.
The people are nice, the tacos are a plenty, it’s casual, the houses are gorgeous and cheap, and the bluebonnets bloom every spring.
A lot of people from other states tell me they wish they could come take pictures of or with the bluebonnets, so I thought I’d put a few images up for you all that you’re welcome to download (free!) for PERSONAL use. Print them, frame them, gift them, make them your phone background.
They are all printable up to 8×10. (If you’d like a larger size, email me – jill at babyrabies dot com, and I’ll give you pricing info.)
Now, THESE pictures below are not the images for download. They are sized and sharpened for the web with my watermark on them.
You’ll want to click on the link below each picture to download that particular one. Look for the download icon in the bottom right corner (an arrow pointing down over a line). The pics available for download will not have a watermark on them, though I would appreciate if you send people my way if they ask where you got it.
We found one very rare white bluebonnet in a sea of blue!
Then I had some fun with my Lensbaby Spark. This is kinda what it’s like
to be drunk in a field of bluebonnets. I’d imagine.
So spinny!
I’d love if you help me spread the word by pinning this! xoxo
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Thank you for this! Out here in Lubbock we don’t get the fields of bluebonnets that y’all do in North and Central Texas. One of these years I’m going to take a road trip to Austin or Dallas in the spring and make my kids take pictures in the bluebonnets (and hit up Ikea while we’re at it!). But until then, I’ll enjoy the photos that you’ve taken!
Beautiful! We visited my in-laws in Texas a few years back, at Spring-time. My MIL told me we had to go take pictures of our family in the bluebonnets “cause that is what you do!” I hadn’t heard of it at the time, but I was so happy we did. They were so beautiful (if i had known ahead of time, I wish I would have picked a better outfit!)
These will be great decor for my new house, thank you!
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Thank you! I can’t wait to have these printed and framed to put a little piece of Texas in our Missouri home. What a sweet gift!!! :-*