Hill Country offers happy blues

  • BLUE HIGHWAYS As early as the 1930s the Texas Highway Department ensured wildflowers would be part of right-of-way landscaping. | TxDOT
    BLUE HIGHWAYS As early as the 1930s the Texas Highway Department ensured wildflowers would be part of right-of-way landscaping. | TxDOT
  • Hill Country offers happy blues
    Hill Country offers happy blues

    Spring officially makes its entry this week, but the Texas wildflower scene is way ahead of the game this year.

    If you get the chance in the next three weeks, hit the highways and be prepared for quite the show that bluebonnets have in store for you.

    KXAN, an Austin NBC-TV affiliate, reports on its website that the bluebonnets are “courtesy of the Texas Department of Transportation’s wildflower prog…