3 1/2 Time Outs Tuesday #12 – The Texas Edition

Doing my best to help LarryD take over the internet one meme at a time.

It’s been almost a year since we returned to my beloved Texas. There really is no place on Earth which sits so softly on the heart. Oh, Texas, how I love thee. Let me begin to count the ways:

March burst into color this year and my heart filled with joy. It was time for bluebonnets. I can’t tell you how much I love these flowers or how the tiny hats lined up on each stem can make me smile.

For a few weeks ever spring, they burst into bloom and whole fields are buried under a beauteous blanket of blue.

Bluebonnets and their cheerful friend Indian Paintbrush will always be Springtime to me.

They line the highways and quiet roads and greet us wherever we go.

And they bring on the annual pilgrimage of parents to the sides of roads all over the state, where they plunk their babies down amidst the flowers and the road noise to take the traditional pictures which cover every grandmother’s fridge.

I guarantee you that this baby’s hair is being blown around by a passing 18-wheeler.

Thank goodness for the tortilla lady in the grocery store. I almost clicked my heels with glee the day I walked in to buy a gallon of milk and found the tortilla lady making them by hand.

Warm, light, and flaky, there is no way to describe the alleluia moment of a fresh hand made tortilla. The fact that I can buy them any time I want and they’re still warm when I get them home? As close to a religious experience as I can have outside of church.

Just wondering, is it wrong to kiss the tortilla lady? She’s all kinds of awesome to me.

Horny toads!

I love these guys! My older brother and I used to catch them at my grandparents’ farm. We quickly learned their defense mechanism of spitting blood from their eyes. It wasn’t much after that when we learned that if you rub their heads in the right places you can make them spit blood from their eyes. Wanna hear your brother squeal like a girl? Have a lizard spit eye blood at him. (It shoots out crazy far. We’re probably the reason these fellas are nearly on the endangered list.)