Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Llano River, Junction, TX

Just a pic from on the road.  The landscape is slowly changing.  More green and trees are reappearing. Still had low shrubs, cacti and buttes along with wind mills, oil pumps and small oil tanks.  A necessary evil, laundry.  Convenient at the campground but not cheap.

This campground is on the Llano River.  As you can see you can swim in the river....if you could find any water.

There was a couple of puddles and then a bit more water looking the other way.

Our site was shaded with a huge pecan tree.

During our walk this evening we came upon a herd of deer.  We sort of played red light with them.  They would look down and we would creep forward.  The larger part of the herd was to the left.  One of them gave the danger signal and most ran off to the river.  These few stayed and just looked at us.
Just another view of our camper.  We drove through total nothing today.  We got gas at a place in the middle of nowhere, it was $4 a gallon!  We had no choice. 

Highlight of today was the sighting of a roadrunner!  It was along side of the road hunting.  Never saw one in NM (the state bird) had to wait to see it in TX.  Also have painted bunting, pretty little birds, bluish green with bright orange bellies.  Still very hot and a bit more humid.  Record heat continues where ever we go.

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