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Bluebonnets

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  I have wanted to see the Texas bluebonnets for years and today that little dream came true.  I love that people keep planting them for others to enjoy and all the people out with families and animals to take pictures.  I was fortunate to go with some friends.  Some simple research came up with several different options for the legends of bluebonnets and this was my favorite: "The Legend of the Bluebonnet retells an old Texas tale about an unselfish young girl who loved the people of her Native American tribe so much that she sacrificed the most precious thing she had to help end the drought. Young She-Who-Is-Alone had lost her entire family to the drought that was plaguing the Comanche people. All she had to remember them by was a special doll that her parents had made for her. When the shaman said that the Great Spirits were angry with the selfishness of the people and would end the drought if the people would sacrifice their most valued possessions, the people he...