Bluebonnets and the Boy

Taking pictures of your child in the bluebonnets is just one of those things you have to do around here. Some people do it every year and make it a tradition. I wanted to do it last year, but never got around to it during their short blooming season. Since we have full access to the car this week, I decided to give it a go this morning and take Liam to some bluebonnets with high hopes of precious pictures in my mind.

I was needing to go to a store in Plano anyway, so I figured we should check out the supposedly awesome bluebonnet field at  JC Penney headquarters in Plano. I drove around the entire JC Penney grounds, and I could see fields of flowers up on the hills, but nothing blue stood out to me. There were a few of the blue flowers, but nothing I would qualify as a photo-worthy patch. However, the grounds were beautiful. If you want lots of colorful flowers as your backdrop, go there. On my second loop around, I kept an eye out for any patch of bluebonnets I could see. I finally saw one that had a decent amount of bluebonnets scattered among other colorful flowers. It was on the side of a hill (they all were). Maybe the bluebonnets were at the top of the hills, but I didn't venture far enough up to find out.

Liam wanted out of the car, so I set him free, and he started up the hill. I started snapping pictures, asking over and over for him to sit down or look at me. He had no plans to comply with any of my requests, so I took a lot of pictures of him pulling up flowers. I kept trying to get him to stop, but you can imagine how well that worked. However, Liam did enjoy the flowers on this Earth Day. I just wish I had gotten more than a couple photos of him looking at the camera. Also, I wish I had more photography skills...and a better camera.

Thinks all flowers are dandelions

Awkward superhero pose?

There's obviously some bluebonnets in those pictures, but you don't get the impression that Liam is frolicking among them. So before we went home, we stopped by another patch that's close to where we live. This was a true bluebonnet patch. We were there about ten minutes, and I once again had trouble convincing Liam to look at the camera! But I got pictures of Liam in bluebonnets this year, and that was the goal.