the Agarita filled the evening air with the sweetest fragrance
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| Old Man's Beard growing on a border fence between the state park and a private ranch |
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| Claret Cup Cactus |
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| Bear Grass |
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| cool shelf fungus growing on a stump on the Fawn Trail |
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| female juniper cedar tree |
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| male juniper cedar tree -- these are the ones that "explode" and look like smoke in the hills |
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| Buckley Yucca |
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| David snapping some shots of a Rock Squirrel |
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| 9 Ringed Armadillo |
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| tho usually a nocturnal critter, we saw these all day long up until the last couple of weeks of Feb |
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| Ranger Holly said when it's too cold for them to get out at night, they'll come out to forage in the daytime |
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| one of the campground's frequent whitetail visitors |
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| one of the first rafters of Rio Grande Turkeys we saw |
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| they were on the trail to the caliche pit |
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| this flock was in the campground just behind our camper |
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| Fox Squirrel that teased us outside our camper window |
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| one of many black vultures (buzzards) that roosted near the gas well/windmill |
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| tho we couldn't see it, they prob had a clear shot of the hog carcus pit |
Ranger Holly says Vultures (Buzzards) are Nature's way of cleaning up trash.
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| Mormon Tea Cactus? |
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| I think these are young Texas Persimmon tree |
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| beautiful bluff just beyond the Primitive Campground |
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| would love some help id'ing this tree |
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| maybe some buckeyes? |
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| Rock Squirrels look black on their body --- their tails lighten up |
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| this one hung out in a tree near the crossing |
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| headquarters has a Prickley Pear and another cactus growing out a tree |
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| "tuna" on a Prickly Pear makes for good jams and jellies |
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| this whitetail deer hung out at our camper to check out the birdseed |
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| Rock Squirrel |
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| isn't he cute??? |
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| some prickly pear on the plateau was turning red |
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several trees seemed to have an interesting base
or burls
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| Rocky finally decided to get to know an armadillo |
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| Gum Bully tree |
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| the leaves hang on thru the winter -- can you see the huge thorns? |
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| love it when we see a heart-shaped prickly pear |
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| prickly pear growing out of a rock at the Primitive Campground |
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| trail to primitive |
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| the compost rr at Primitive blends in |
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| beautiful campsite with a view |
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| our campsite for the winter |
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| wild hog damage was abundant throughout the park |
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| one of hundreds of Pecan Trees in the park |
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| David was able to snap a pic of the ugliest possum I've ever seen in the campground |
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| the neighboring goat farm had the cutest donkeys ever! |
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| more hog damage |
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Agerita started blooming in late Feb
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the Redbuds were popping on our last hike
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Some animals that we didn't get pix of were jackrabbits, bobcats, porcupines, gray fox, ringtails, racoons, We were fortunate to see the jackrabbits often, but it was always at dawn or dusk and not a good time to get pix. I was excited to see them, though, because I'd never seen any. We went porcupine and gray fox "hunting", but no luck, although others saw them while we were there.
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