So for those of you who didn't believe me about red bluebonnets, here they are. Apparently, an Aggie bred them as part of a project to grow the Texas state flag out of the Texas state flower. Only problem is that bluebonnets are naturally, you guessed it, blue. Well, that's no obstacle for the dedicated Aggie, so now we have red, white, and pink bluebonnets in addition to blue. And, since maroon is a shade of red (and also since an Aggie is doing the study) we now have, you guessed it, maroon bluebonnets as well. I'm guessing that, since orange is only a few steps away from red, it will only be a matter of time before we have orange bluebonnets, which I can just see covering downtown Austin in the spring. Seriously, these horticulturists have managed to obtain colors never before seen in nature. That's pretty impressive, even for an Aggie. Congratulations, guys.

All this brings up to an interesting dilemma: to the native, loyal Texan, it would seem that the idea of creating un-blue bluebonnets would be horrifying, bordering on blasphemous. But if such a thing is done for such a noble purpose as to produce a living Texas flag, is such a desecration excusable, perhaps even laudable? But I'll leave that to other, more Texan, minds to work out for themselves.