Bluebonnet Spring
If you can, turn this on and listen to this song during my post. (But don't watch the video) It's one of my lifelong favorite songs by an old favorite folk singer, Nanci Griffith, who is from Texas. The nostalgia of this song extends back at least twenty years for me, probably more, a nostalgia I share with my mom and sister. We woke up early Saturday to follow Annette to Hubbard in order to get the house ready for the memorial luncheon that would follow the graveside ceremony for Debby. It had been a very late night, and we carried our sleepy girls in their jammies to our little blue Prius. Driving along the small bright morningtime highway out of Waco toward Hubbard, Texas, I kept trying to remember the name of the Nanci Griffith song that talked about bluebonnets: "This is the only place on earth bluebonnets grow..." There were meadows of bluebonnets along each side, horses, and old fashioned buildings with rusty signs from sixty, eighty years ago. ...