A Few Bright Blossoms and Brand New Leaves

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Even before the rain of this past week, the colors of early Spring were getting off to a good start:

Texas Redbud blossoms, Texas Baby Blue-eyes blossoms and the bright green, brand new leaves of a Box Elder are just a small sample of the colorful delight emerging this month. The rain over the past four days will certainly lead to a more colorful display of wildflowers throughout the natural areas in Bexar County in the coming weeks.

These photos were taken on a walk along the Mission San Juan, Mission Reach loop trail on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.

I probably should mention this loop trail is formed by a connector trail from the Yanaguana Nature Trail at Mission San Juan to a pedestrian bridge crossing the river to the main Mission Reach trail, then upstream to the Mission Road bridge and back to Mission San Juan.

Also, I added this note to the sidebar a couple weeks ago, but it is worth emphasizing here: to see the photos in each post in slideshow format, click on the first photo at the top of the post.