Prairie View Cemetery

 

On April 13th, after leaving the site along US 183 in Williamson County that provided the last two pictures in yesterday’s post, we continued north, soon crossing into Burnet County and stopping at Prairie View Cemetery in the little town of Briggs. While we’d visited the cemetery a year or two earlier, I found it covered with even better wildflowers this spring. Aware of the photogenic clouds overhead, and noticing that they were moving rather quickly, I hurried to find a vantage point from which I could include them along with some wildflowers. I soon found myself lying on the ground for the top picture. The red-orange flowers are prairie paintbrushes (Castilleja purpurea var. lindheimeri), and the yellow ones are Engelmann daisies (Engelmannia peristenia).

 

  

As it was a cemetery, I appropriately carried out my work with ceremony.
Look how the Engelmann daisies and the old plainsman (Hymenopappus scabiosaeus) blew.

 

 

The pre-wildflower-era photographer sometimes asserted himself.

 

 

 

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My country is killing itself. One of the ways it’s doing so is by letting its government impose policies that will leave the nation without sufficient energy. The electric grid is already straining to meet current needs, and it will soon be incapable of meeting rapidly increasing demands. You can read about that aspect of our nation’s assisted suicide in an April 26th editorial in the Wall Street Journal.

 

 

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