[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is an oft repeated feeling that I experience every year here in Texas. By summer I am mentally packing my bags and moving to Colorado.  I swear that I cannot take one more year here in this heat.  But then something happens. Not just any something… but Texas in spring happens.

Specifically, our state breaks out into bloom. Then all of a sudden I no longer feel the immediate need to relocate to somewhere cooler, because there is nothing ‘cooler’ than s...