Red Truck Therapy

Red trucks, blue skies, my camera and a few free minutes. 

Sometimes it doesn't take much to make me happy. 

I spotted these beauties along Highway 71 on my way back to Austin from Houston this week.

I made a U-turn in LaGrange so I could go back and admire them up close.

As much as I love them in color, 

old trucks and cars just lend themselves to variations of black and white.

I had to share this one in color, too. 

Minty delicious!!

Old Truck Love

They sit in a field on Highway 71, 

always catching my eye as I head to Houston, 

eliciting a vow to stop and take their picture...next time.

I finally made a U-turn and stopped Saturday.

Dead camera battery.

Dang it.

So on my way back home Sunday

I finally 

fulfilled 

my vow.

Glad that's out of my system!


Take a close look at that oldest truck.
Those are bullet holes in the windshield, aren't they?

Highway Heaven (Texas Wildflowers)

If you're planning a road trip in Texas, spring is the time to do it, 

when wildflowers parade up and down the roadside.

Even without the rains that really make them pop, 

 a few hardy show-stoppers strutted their stuff for me on my return trip from Houston 

along Highway 71 a week ago.

There were the usual bluebonnets,
spilling across an open field...

The pink primroses (aka buttercups) filling the highway median...

(notice the one lone Indian Paintbrush?)

And then there was this field fronting an old farmhouse outside of LaGrange, 

that caused me to gasp, 

brake 

and steer off the road so I could capture the beauty in my camera. 

Bluebonnets alone are pretty,

 but sprinkle some red drummond phlox in there, 

and, well, you'll gasp 

and pull off the road for photo after photo after photo, 

several almost exactly alike, 

because you just can't stop snapping away...

until you're worried the people in the farmhouse are going to come out and speak to you - 

or maybe just call the police...

So you hop in your car and go - 

after taking one last photo of the awesome oak tree guarding the old farmhouse, of course...

What a wonderful surprise! 

Hilary at the Smitten Image presented me with a Post of the Week award for this one. Yay! 

Thanks, Hilary! 

Click on the image below to check out the other POTW winners.