Natural History Wanderings

Gary Regner Photography has a wildflower report for Lake Travis:

Visited Turkey Bend Recreation area Friday for sunset and sunrise the following morning. Bluebonnets are rapidly going to seed, and I suspect the same goes for Muleshoe Bend since it is only a couple hundred yards away across the lake. Turkey Bend is nice to see, but for serious landscape photography the bluebonnets are faded and a majority are going to seed. They only look decent from a distance, close-up you notice all the seed pods. Also, they have been trampled and driven through repeatedly.

RM 1431 from IH35 to Cedar Park – unremarkable except for a few nice fields just after you pass the city sign going west [Rating 1]

RM 1431 from Cedar Park to Marble Falls – a few wildflowers along the road and occassional lightly covered fields [Rating 1]

LCRA Turkey Bend Recreation Area – large fields of bluebonnets along the shores but past peak now [Rating 3-4]

Gary Regner Photography