West Texas

I didn't expect the soul soothing experience that goes along with traveling to remote and majestic locales on our humble family vacation to West Texas but that is exactly what happened. It was the snorkeling with catfish and turtles in cool spring water at Balmorhea, lunching in Marfa with sophisticates, hiking to sublime vistas and driving through ancient land formations in Big Bend, mud bathing in the Rio Grande, gazing at clouds by day and stars by night, drinking G&T's in a cave tavern in Terlingua, sighting javelinas, jack rabbits, deer, road runners, blue-winged crickets, swallows, bats, tiny toads, lizards and muskrats, playing with my kids, hubby and Bartlett crew, and being off the communications grid that did it.

mud baths, rio grande
un par de tortolitos
mountain guinea pig game
vista
in bloom
floaters & goggle pop, balmorhea
ella, high dive
cy, low dive
pop, real dive
vacation mama
the ballroom, marfa
5 miles from mexico
Not a bad way to close out the summer. Sigh...