Colorful flowers like the orangey red Indian paintbrush thrive below 10,000 feet; another flower, alpine gold, appears at 12,000 feet.
Bronco guides us into the beach of our first campsite, a rocky bank leading to forested slopes studded with yellow-centered, lavender fleabane, shrubs of white snowberry, pink-petaled fireweed and a blaze of red Indian paintbrush.
Don't forget to stop and smell the flowers, especially the blue lupine and bright red Indian paintbrush.
At higher altitudes, alpine meadows are common, and they feature the following flowers: lupine, red Indian paintbrush, heather, arnica, larkspur, sunflowers, columbines, and many other genera.
As roadsides explode with the vivid orange-red of Indian paintbrush, the yellow of primroses and the rich signature blue of the bluebonnet, the pavement explodes, too -- with thousands of carloads of bloom-besotted rubberneckers drinking in the beauty and slowing down traffic.
In the summer, the dunes bloom with bush lupine's purple flowers, yellow sand-verbena and coast paintbrush's red-tipped petals.
But Texas promised a different, wilder sort of spring, so I headed to the Hill Country around Austin, where I hoped to see blankets of wildflowers: puffy quilts of bluebonnets dotted with red and yellow — poppies, Indian paintbrush and daisies.
Scarlet clusters of paintbrush spattered higher elevations.
Outline these features with black paint, and use a pencil and paintbrush to paint a red tie on the front.
There's an open book and a paintbrush clogged with the same red as the shadow and the head.
