When we ventured outside Blanche the next morning, the campsite was abloom in wildflowers. Texas bluebonnets, bright purple spiderwort, dainty Texas baby-blue-eyes, Drummond’s onion and Mexican buckeye all strutted their stuff in a rainbow pageant. And, yes, I had to use my NWF Wildflowers of North America book to identify them all. It’s hard to realize that we’re only minutes from downtown Austin.