It's not just bluebonnet season, y'all. It's creek-splashing season. Hiking season. Outdoor music season. Gardening season. Bike-riding season. Campfire season.

And yet. Why are all of us Austinites compulsively drawn to plopping our children down in a field of bluebonnets, taking slightly-awkward portraits there, and then putting our cameras away until our summer vacations?

Don't get me wrong. Bluebonnet portraits are a time-honored tradition for Central Texans, right? But here's the thing. There's so much more activity and content to our glorious springtimes.

This year, let's all put our real life in our record books, shall we?