Northeast Gardening: Stones, rocks, boulders and erratics 2, 1 by nutsfordaylily

nutsfordaylily wrote:
Thanks for the compliments, DonnieBrook. You would love visiting Texas. Lots of nice geology. I loved it there, and would perhaps consider moving there one day. My sister has 20 acres there just outside of Killeen, overlooking a part of Fort Hood where there are not buildings, so she has a really nice view. She is building a house on the top part of her property, which is kind of like a plateau. Then her land goes down a steep hill to the bottom part where there is a big, seasonal pond, only full during the rainy season. The climate there is basically dry, hot and humid in summer, a bit cold in winter, but usually no snow, just the occasional ice storms. Of course, she is in the tornado alley area, too, unfortunately. They also get some periods of very heavy rain, which causes flooding and fills her big pond. Then she can go boating on it. She has been trying to figure out a way so that she could get the water to stay in the pond, and she's tried adding clay to it, but no go. She and her father-in-law hunt for Bambi on the property, and they have 3 deer stands there.

Here are some more Texas pics.

Karen

This is me on a hike at Lost Maples State Park in the Texas hill country.