Today we drove up to Del Rio, TX for breakfast at McDonald's and worship at First Baptist Church of Del Rio. Pastor Jeff had a very interesting sermon from Mark 1:4-11 about John the Baptist, baptism and fake "spray-on" mud. After church, we drove north of Del Rio, past the Amistadt Reservoir to Seminole Canyon. The countryside here is entirely different than southern Indiana. It's mostly flat, very few large trees (lots of brush) and very brown at this time of year. You have huge vistas and the sky seems to go on forever the land is so open. The canyon at this time of year is dry. But early spring rainstorms can turn it into a raging river. Some of North America's oldest pictographs are found here and they have replicas on display in the visitor's center. They only have tours July - August so we weren't able to hike down to the pictographs (Linda's knees wouldn't have wanted to anyway!) We did do a little hiking around the visitor's center, walked about 1/2 to 1/3 of the way down in to the canyon and then sat and just enjoyed the quiet solitude and the beautiful countryside. After trekking back UP the canyon, we drove around the park - not many more views of the canyon but a beautiful campground and an old train bed from around the 1890's. We then headed back towards home, taking a side trip to Box Canyon on Amistadt Reservoir. Such blue water! It was another peaceful, wonderful day. On a fun note --- can you identify this??? :-) 
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