Spring Comes to the Valley; Dave and Jane Leave

April 1, 2018

We enjoyed watching flowers bloom and the landscape turn green as Spring arrived in the Rio Grande Valley.

Thornscrub in January

Scrub after the arrival of Spring

Some of the flowers were familiar, many were ones we didn’t see on the Treasure Coast.

Blossoms of sweet acacia or huisache

Sweet acacia shrub

Texas mountain laurel

Prairie verbena

Prickly poppy

Pink evening primrose

Prickly pear

Prickly pear

Prickly pear

Sometimes on our walks came upon non-flowers that interested us.

Is that a jawbreaker at the opening of this ant colony?

Look just to left of center under the tree trunk for two out-of-focus javelinas.

Jane’s head illustrates why this is called a bird blind.

Can you see our smiles? We love these walks!

Alhough there are a lot of photos already in this post, we want to include some pictures of Sunshine RV Resort, the Harlingen park where we stayed for almost 10 weeks.

Library

The park sponsored a hamburger lunch on the pool deck our last week. They sent to Sam’s Club twice for more food as they fed almost 400 people.

We enjoyed the people we met in the Rio Grande Valley.  We were introduced to some new birds and wildflowers.  We now have an appreciation for South Padre Island and for the Rio Grande itself.  The weather was much grayer and windier than we would have liked, so we expect to winter in Arizona in 2019.  For now, it’s on to Austin!