Despite lots of valiant attempts to capture the beauty and brilliance of the Sweet William that we dubbed the Blue Bonnet of Florida, it just is not accurately reflected in these photos.  It was lining the roadsides for at least 2 days, which was good, since they followed a 40 miler which was almost totally devoid of any signs of life save miles and miles and miles of straight road lined by Southern Pines.  Give us hills and funky convenience stores any day over the flat boring routes!