Die Manchmal Gruene Weide: Easter Sunday Spring Wildflower Blooms

Small blue flower about 1/2 inch in diameter.

Easter Sunday weekend and what to do with a guest. The women were all in Tyler Texas visiting with my granddaughter Celeste leaving Christian and myself to fend for ourselves Easter weekend. Saturday, as promised, we loaded the Kayaks in the truck and I took Christian to Lake Austin below the Lake Travis dam. We kayaked down lake in the teeth of a strong wind past all the houses. A lot of the time we hugged the shore to see if we could spot a snake swimming along the shore. Although we didn't see a snake, Christian spotted turtles in the water. The return paddle up the lake went easier with the wind at our back. Overall, we paddled almost two and a half hours.

Small purple flower, cluster about a quarter coin in diameter

Easter Sunday we went to Hutto Bible Church with a good friend +Scott Butler and his wife +Linda Butler where we enjoyed a very good service and sermon. After the service we drove out to Die Manchmal Gruene Weide to feed and water Herbie. It rained shortly after we arrived so we sat in the shed and waited for the light storm to pass. Afterwards we walked around the property, through fields and woods looking for different wildflowers to photograph. I am not a botanist so I don't know the identity of these flowers but they were certainly pretty.

I photographed all flower pictures with a Canon EOS XTi with the EF-S 60mm Macro Lens. For flowers I take up to a dozen pictures per flower in the hope that at least one photo is in focus. The rainy day lead to low light conditions that were good for flower photography but the XTi/60mm macro lens combo tends to hunt for focus in low light macro photography. This page contains thirteen different blooms I captured, but sadly I didn't successfully focus on another two very tiny and lovely flowers. In addition to the flowers, I captured intriguingly colorful and textured lichen and a skinny wasp crawling in the leaf litter.