LAJITAS, TX March 23, 2015 BIG BEND

Monday we traveled to Terlingua, just down the road,  and drove thru the ghost town!!  Many ruins, as this was the Cisos Mining area for Mercury......until people died or got deathly ill.

Left is an art shop/studio.  Of course, there's a flying saucer in the  front!!


















Occotillio are used to build fences.
The branches are lined with thorns with red flowers apprearing at the top first, then later in spring line down the branch.  Sure would keep me out of the fence!!!!!











Tile work at the Terlingua hotel

Tile work at the Terlingua hotel






 Gorgeous Bluebonnets on roadside.  They are  lupines as ours are but they call them west Texas BB's.

Ron and Sally Clyburn rode with us to the park and we had a great time.  Sally was familiar with some of the plants names.

Yucca plant

Mike ....in the thick of things

Walked off the path to the SAM NAIL RANCH area...what was. You could tell it had been a homesite.

 




This was a real working windmill.  Yes, we saw the water is pumped up.

 left....    mistletoe in the tree

several cactus varities.

This big guy was for real!!!  Sally made Mike back up and check on him.  I identified it as a rattler.  Mike poked it with a stick from inside the car and he was ready to strike!!!



































Grocery store at an old army barracks from the Mexican Revolution.

 Rio Grande River

 Sotol cactus variety.  Mexicans make walking sticks from them.

Ron and Sally Clyburn