Lady Bird Johnson

A few weeks back I acquired a Texas Wildflower lens that the lensowner was no longer interested in keeping. It wasn't a well-visited lens, there wasn't much interest and as a commerce lens there simply isn't much to offer except seeds and guidebooks.

However, Texas Wildflowers have been a passion of one of our Former First Ladies, Lady Bird Johnson, for all of her life. So, I decided to add this information to the page, which enhances the understanding of our inheritance of incredible wildflowers. Connecting Lady Bird to the wildflower lens didn't increase its commerce value, but it certainly improved the value of the page in other so many other respects.

Lady Bird Johnson did so much for this country, beautifying the highways with medians, wildflower plantings, and limiting the hideous roadside clutter of too many billboards. She was a civil rights pioneer, one with INFLUENCE, and a formidable businesswoman. When her husband, Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected to Congress, but also served in the active duty military, Lady Bird manned his political office in his absence, helping him to serve our country in two critical ways at one time.

I didn't anticipate this right away, even though she had aged, I understood she was still very healthy; but Lady Bird passed away on July 11, 2007. Because of her importance, this page was selected as Lens of the Day.

I hope that, in honor of an incredible First Lady, who served America all of her life with passion, grace and loyalty, that you'll visit this page and leave your respects. I suspect that her family and those who love her will find this page at some point. Perhaps your comments will help console them in their (and our) great loss.