I'm a transplant to Texas. My DH and I worked for the same company but in different states - me in NY and him in Texas. When we first started our long distance romance, I came to Texas to visit him for long weekends. My first visit was over Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday weekend. After three days together, I almost didn't get on the plane to go back to NY. I was crying all the way to the plane so openly that the flight attendant even asked if I was okay. Sure . . . I'm just ripping my heart out by leaving. Paul and I had known each other for almost 2 years at that point. But it wasn't until that weekend, that I think we really fell deeply, truly in love.

When I came back again in the spring, we took a drive down to the Texas Hill Country. It was there that I first saw bluebonnets. A vast ocean of flowers along the roadsides and across fields where cattle grazed. It was breathtaking! I love other wildflowers that grow in Texas, but it's the bluebonnet that won my heart. Bluebonnets happen to be the State Flower of Texas too! They're said to get their name from the shape of the petals - they look like an old-fashioned bonnet that pioneer women wore. And that is what inspired the name for my blog - just in case you were wondering.