Date: 03/25/2005

Number: 1

Wildflowers are just beginning to splash across the fields with the greatest color between the famous field southeast of the Benton City water tank on the east side of Interstate 35 and increasing as one reaches mile marker 120-118. Some 43 miles south of San Antonio, TX. A housing development set on marketing 5-20 acre plots of solid bluebonnets and phlox is currently capitalizing on quite a few acres of sheer heaven. Blue bonnets, pink evening primrose, phlox, castilleja indivisa are the showiest. All the stretches along the roadside appear to be just coming into their prime and perhaps a week away from peak display.

Perhaps another week will see widespread color.

Just north of Eagle Pass in Maverick County on Hwy. 277 some dramatic yellows are creating swaths of color in the roadway about 8-10 miles from town. These are primarily huisache daisy. But the true drama is the chaparral in bloom with millions of acres of blackbrush covered in buttery yellow blossoms.

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Eagle Pass, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -100.5

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