The Texas Back Porch is that special place where you go to relax in a rocking chair and let your mind wander...from the Guadalupe Mountains to the East Texas pines, from the South Texas prairies to the Gulf of Mexico, experiencing hill country breezes, longhorns, horses, armadillos, country music, and Tex-Mex foods, yet not forgetting the dreadful Texas heat, rattlesnakes, and everybody's awful Texas drawl. Yes, Texas is a vast state, from out of the rugged and romantic West, where the beautiful and the brutal strangely blend and they're all topics to talk about on the Texas Back Porch.


Thursday, May 19, 2011

A Parched Land

It's only May and most of Texas is parched from drought and under a burn ban.  On a recent camping trip to McKinney Falls near Austin, we weren't able to have a campfire, so sandwiches were the special each day.  We hiked from our site to the falls but river levels were so low that the falls turned out to be more of a dribble.  Photos, from a rainier season, at the visitor's center showed beautiful water splashing across rocks
to the depths below, and I'm sure this is normally a true depiction but, though the hiking trails were fun, we missed out on the beauty of the falls.

Confident that there would be no rain, we slept with only the screen top on the tent.  Tree limbs formed serene silhouettes against the star studded sky, creating a soothing backdrop for drifting into a relaxing sleep.   But back home now, a thunderstorm would be a welcome thing in my neighborhood right now.
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