A few years ago...........and a few miles down the road from our home

a large patch of lovely wild, pink, primrose were

growing and blowing in the wild Texas wind......

right on the corner of a worn country road.

I just had to have a few for my flower bed at home! 

One day, while they were still blooming, 

my husband and I went........with a shovel, and a pail 

of wet, soggy, paper towels.......and dug a clump of 

these up.  

Now, every year, they sprout up .......

with the patch growing larger and more lovely...........

 the peaceful worn out country road , where they had been dug up from,  has become a 

heavily traveled road with oil and refinery trucks growling 

their way back and forth.  

The lovely patch of flowers that once grew there

are gone.........killed by the heavy traffic and turmoil 

of the hot road.

I am so glad that  I save just one small clump! 

I walk out each morning.......and see them.........and smile

with the memory of my patient husband helping me

to dig them up .

These lovely flowers, inspired me to  embroider a southern belle 

in her lovely flower garden.......hoping one day

I might have has many pretty flowers in mine!

I think it is actually illegal to dig up wildflowers along the highway........

but this was once a peaceful country road..........in the middle of nowhere.........

and when we pass by that same spot...........now so barren and hard packed............

I think my husband and I are the only ones who knew that

 lovely primrose once grew there.
Who knows how long these flowers will live in the garden here...........I hope at
least until I have passed on.

How about you?   

Do you ever see pretty flowers on a long lost country road

and dig up or pick a few? 

The fields and the prairie here are filling up with wildflowers......

giving me much inspiration for my embroidery work. 

A large majority of these flowers are daisies. 

There are several different types of daisy in yellow,

and there are several different types of daisy in 

white.  

These are call ox-eyed daisy because of their large centers. 

They have a broad type petal.

These are longer and taller daisies with large button

like centers and slender white petals. 

and I am always drawn to these very tiny white daisies that are only a 

few inches high and the flower is only about the size of a large match head.

They grow in large sprawling clumps along the ground and 

look so cheery. 

So  I decided to work them into my embroidery .

I usually stay away from white thread floss for flowers,

but this really worked for this flower basket.......

don't you think?

There are also other colorful wildflowers growing in 

in abundance and at this moment the air is filled with

their fragrance. 

What is better ......than to take a long walk with the one you love

and to be given a bouquet of wildflowers??

How about you?

Do you have wildflowers popping up around you?

What is your favorite?

I would love  to hear?