Jealous of a patch of desert that’s approximately 17% percent made up of scorpion venom… riiiight!
A patch of desert? Oh, no! It is so much more than that! (But don’t knock deserts! There is a surprising amount of beauty to be found there! Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright knew that!)
Texas actually has four major geographic regions, which can be further subdivided: the gulf coastal plains, which consists of pine forests, prairie land, and beaches; the interior lowlands (the rolling hills here and prairies are home to a lot of the state’s cattle industry!); the high plains (including the Edwards plateau and much of my darling hill country!!); and lastly, the basin and province range, which is what lot of newcomers to Texas seem to think of when they picture Texas—deserts and mountains. But Texas has a lot of geographic and biological diversity and is an incredibly fertile state, with lots of green belts and rich soil for farming!
These are the Trans-Pecos, it is part of a mountain range located in the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest desert in North America! Beautiful, yeah? This is located in far west Texas. (You can definitely find your scorpions here…)
This is Big Bend National Park, located in southwest Texas. Doesn’t it just take your breath away? The wildflowers are just blooming there…
But then go over to east Texas, by the Louisiana border, and you get one of the world’s largest cypress tree forests!
This is Caddo Lake. There is truthfully not a whole lot to see in east Texas besides poultry farms, but if you ever make it out to Caddo Lake, I would recommend going on a ferry and taking a tour of the bayou, and maybe picking up some ghost stories! (Just make sure you don’t go to Louisiana).
Now, I really like central Texas, that’s where the German hill country is, and also where the capital is located! And just look at all of these beautiful watering holes:
Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve
Jacob’s Well
And of course, Texas is home to many rivers and green belts: the Rio Grande, the Colorado, the Trinity, the Brazos, and I’m especially fond of the San Marcos:
There are a lot of other images I could use to represent Teas, but I just wanted to show that there is a lot more than desert here :)
