Under Western skies
I find the desolate, arid terrain of West Texas to be uniquely beautiful, peaceful, soulful even. Perhaps it is because it is such a contrast to the humid, jungly feel of Southeast Texas where I live. Visiting it is a bit like being in another country, maybe even another planet. I've already showed you some of the bird pictures that I took on our trip there. Here are some of the other pictures that we took when we visited that "other country" in March. In the 1800s, there was a series of forts erected along the western Texas frontier. One of them was Fort Lancaster in the Pecos River Valley. Today, nothing remains but the ruins of several of the buildings and the area is a State Historical Site with a visitors' center. This is one of the most complete of the surviving structures. Interestingly, we had visited this historical site a few years ago in late October during the time of the fall migration of Monarch butterflies. On the day that we were there, the place w...