5/5/16

Texas Flower Friday


Today's Flower Friday is dedicate to our good friend Whitley, who went to the Bridge yesterday. You will always live in our hearts and I will always think of you and your love of the water whenever I wear the dolphin dress you let your Mama make for me!
I know you will have a whole new line of dresses to show me 
when we meet again!
Transport over to Whitley's HERE to leave
a word of support for her family.   



Happy Flower Friday everybody!! As you might know,  all of us here at Dory's Backyard are originally from Texas! Bilbo was born and raised in Austin, TX....I was born in College Station, TX and raised in Austin, TX and both Jakey and Arty were born and raised in Austin too!


Most of these flower pictures were taken in the middle of  Downtown Austin at the Lady Bird Johnson Lake(aka Town Lake)..




Except for this magnolia which Mama captured while she was walking around the Texas State Capitol!




There are so many beautiful wildflowers in Texas during the Springtime!




Especially this spring, because there was lots of rain over the winter!




Mama says she is going back to Texas this summer after the B.A.R. to see Grandma and Grandpa and her sister and brothers
(and stay tuned tomorrow for our newest Uncle she is going to see!)




Probably all of the wildflowers will be gone by then tho...




...and it will be lots warmer



...so I'll have to stay home with Daddy. 
But that's ok, maybe I'll send Arty to keep her company.




I bet Arty would chase all the turtles....




Boy,  Mama sure did see lots of flowers, didn't she!!??




Funny how she knows all the names of these flowers...




...and didn't know any of the names of the California wildflowers...Silly Mama!!




This goose doesn't look real happy with you, Mama.




Bet you forgot to bring treats for her too!!




Such beautimous flowers!




We can't believe you even found some late blooming Bluebonnets!!





We hope you have some beautimous flowers blooming where you are!!! 

Hop aboard the Flower Friday Blog Hop and show us what's blooming in your corner of Blogville!!
(We don't know what is going on with the Linky, but we are trying again. Mama is sooooo very sorry this didn't go through this morning)

28 comments:

  1. I am SO going to miss Whitley. I hope her mommy is doing ok. I am so sad for her.

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  2. Bluebonnets in May - dat are pretty speshul! Dere are some naybors round here who Finley says still have some going.

    And tanks for menshuning our Whitley - we all are missing her so much.

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  3. We are on board, we have lots of flowers to show off at our place today. Your Mom sure saw some purrty flowers, we just loved the Bluebonnets.

    We are sads about Whitley but the flowers cheered us up.

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  4. Thanks fur da dedicatin' yer post to my Bff... we all misses her tons...

    And all dose purdy flower photos-- we luvs our native wildflowers! When my family lived in SoCal back in da 90s, my Momma ordered sum California wildflower seed from Wildseed Farms.... they were so gorgeous,too! Baby blue eyes, Farewell to Spring, five spot were some of her favorites... check out da western mix, they grow so well and don't need much water... http://shop.wildseedfarms.com/Western-Wildflower-Mix/productinfo/3342/.

    I wrote a post fur Whitley... but I'll see if I can gits my Momma to do a Flower Friday post later today....

    luv ya,
    Finley

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  5. Your flowers are just as beautiful as you are, Dory! We are just crushed for Whitley's family.

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  6. What a lovely post in honor our are very wee little friend Whitley who had a giant heart...
    I can just hear her telling all the angels how to dress to impress.
    Hugs madi your bfff

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  7. Beautiful post with all the gorgeous flowers. We too are so sad for Whitley and her mom. At least Whitley will be pain free now, but her mom will need lots of loving.

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  8. They do haf beautiful flowers in Texas, so pretty
    So sad about Whitley, we will all miss her so much
    Loves and licky kisses
    Princess Leah xxx

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  9. Hari OM
    A beautiful farewell to our fun furriend Whitley... That bluebonnet is variety of lupin, so at least your mama knows THAT one!!! hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx

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  10. that was a wonderful post for the cute girl from Texas... and we cried as we saw the bluebonnets...but they are beautiful...

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  11. Wonderful post! Rest in peace, Whitley.

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  12. Yes, we are sad about sweet Whitley also. We sent her momma hugs. We love those beautiful flowers, the frost got our lilacs so far we don't have any flowers blooming. We are glad your mom and dad made it home safely from their trip.
    stella rose and momma

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  13. Those flowers are beautiful! We're going to miss Whitely too!

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  14. Beautiful flowers. Loved the goose and turtle pictures too.

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  15. What a beautiful way to honor your friend. The flowers are very pretty.

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  16. A beautiful tribute to a sweet friend
    Lily & Edward

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  17. Such lovely Texas flowers for Whitley. She is gonna be missed so much
    hugs
    Mr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel

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  18. I guess I'll bloghop with flowers tomorrow as I did not see where to click on the blog hop button, but we have some pretty wonderful flowers now in our garden and I'll get mama to post them soon. Love the ones on this blog, really spectacular!

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  19. You always find the most beautiful flowers to share. Soft woos and gentle hugs to Whitley's family. She will be missed.

    Woos - Ciara and Lightning

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  20. Your tribute to Whitley is beautiful and we feel so sad for her momma. We are sending lots of hugs to Whitley's family today. Your flowers are simply GORGEOUS!!

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  21. I'll bet those Bluebonnets stuck around that long so they could welcome your mom back to Texas! We loved seeing all the beautiful flowers!
    Cammie!

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  22. AWWWWWW what a BEAUTIFUL Tribute to our Whitley... We are SURE that she is feeling the Love...

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  23. Oh my goodness - those are some incredible flowers. So beautiful and perfectly photographed! Dory wins the contest for the most beautiful of them all, though!

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  24. Very nice. Things are looking pretty nice up here too.

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  25. We will all miss Whitley!!
    Your flowers are so pretty and the turtles are awesome too.

    Wags
    Oreo

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  26. run free Whitley, so sorry to hear this.. your flowers are fantastic, and i think turtles on a stick should be on a menu.. LOL....

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