Bluebonnets are going to be springing up everywhere

Texas: the Bluebonnets are going to be springing up everywhere with last week’s rain, and the ensuing cool weather. It just reminds me why I like living here so much. I’ve tried to live elsewhere, but even the breathtaking Rockies, or the exquisite parts of Northern California, especially the shoreline, it just doesn’t compare. I keep recycling back here. I was looking at a map about migration patterns in the last century, and that explains a little why I like it here. Most of East Texas was settled by Southerners. Just south of Austin, there’s a piece of the Camino Real, an old Spanish highway which predates any of the “southern” invasion. Then there’s the eerie “staked plains” in the Panhandle, and don’t forget that that the northern edge of the Sonora Desert stretches up into western edge of Central Texas. Most be Monday morning. One Blond Gemini calls from the airport to amuse me with data about all the flights to NY being canceled, “If I didn’t know Mercury was RX, I’d be irritated.” In the background I could hear an announcement that another airline had a flight leaving for NY at that moment. And another one is coming by to take me to breakfast. Another blond Gemini, that is. It’s true, I love the sign of the Twins. But last night, it was Virgo — have no fear — she was driving a large red truck. And tonight, it was red head Capricorn commiserating about her day “at the office.”