There 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 spring Texas wildflowe...