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Thanks To Mild Winter, Texas Bluebonnets Are Early!

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith
Published March 20, 2017 at 9:41 AM EDT
TEXAS BLUEBONNETS - Thanks to a mild winter, Texas Bluebonnets are making an early showing along highways in East Texas.
Credit Arlene Honza / City of Ennis Convention and Visitors Bureau
TEXAS BLUEBONNETS - Thanks to a mild winter, Texas Bluebonnets are making an early showing along highways in East Texas.
TEXAS BLUEBONNETS - Thanks to a mild winter, Texas Bluebonnets are making an early showing along highways in East Texas.
Credit Credit Arlene Honza / City of Ennis Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Credit Arlene Honza / City of Ennis Convention and Visitors Bureau
TEXAS BLUEBONNETS - Thanks to a mild winter, Texas Bluebonnets are making an early showing along highways in East Texas.

THEY'RE EARLY! - Thanks to a milder winter,  the famous Texas Bluebonnets have made an early appearance along Texas highways and interstates.   The popular state flower seems to be everywhere and motorists are encouraged to exercise caution when stopping along busy roadways to take in the views.  Also with warmer weather means snakes and fire ants will be showing up too so people are urged to keep an eye out for those too.  According to experts from Texas A&M Agri-Life Extension Services, the Bluebonnets will soon be joined by Indian Paintbrush and Indian Blankets which are red flowers to compliment the state flower.

Indian Paintbrush among Bluebonnets
Credit Courtesy: Wildflower.org
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Courtesy: Wildflower.org
Indian Paintbrush among Bluebonnets

THEY'RE EARLY! - Thanks to a milder winter, the famous Texas Bluebonnets have made an early appearance along Texas highways and interstates. The popular state flower seems to be everywhere and motorists are encouraged to exercise caution when stopping along busy roadways to take in the views.

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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.
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