In My Opinion

It looks as though it might rain, which is just the weather being flirty. Nothing will come of it, I’m sure. If it does, of course, I’ll be happy. We need rain. This is setting up to be one dry winter and it will not be good for the bluebonnets. Although, I have to confess, that is simply by opinion and it is based on nothing more than my observations since I moved to the Hill Country and it is backed with no data whatsoever.

That means we can all discuss the subject over beers and everyone’s opinion will get an airing, and the person who sounds the most knowledgeable will probably be taken seriously. Then we can all go home, wait for Spring, forget all about the conversations as to the impact of a dry winter on bluebonnet production, and be happy when they show up. Because no one will have logged the winter’s rainfall on their property, nor will they have taken a bluebonnet inventory to correlate flowers with the rainfall. And they certainly wouldn’t have logged any variables that might need to be ruled out, such as temperatures or the silliness of their neighbors.

We did mow to make sure the little seeds that might be tempting to germinate got some sun, but again that’s a less than scientific approach. It’s just that we did it once or twice and had a fair crop. Besides, it doesn’t hurt to mow, and it makes the place look tidy. And tidy is always good. And something will grow. The dryline may have moved a few degrees east, but we’re still a ways away from becoming a semi-desert. That will be something left behind for my children, and I’m pretty sure they won’t make me take full responsibility. They know how I feel about climate change.