Farm to Market Road 3078

It seems all I can do these days is reminisce and dream of road trips and camping days of long ago. Well, not too long ago but in these work days and winter doldrums, it just seems long ago. The days here in West Texas are warm and sunny and very inviting for traveling and camping. The nights are very cold but it often warms up quickly. The wind, she blows, and will really be gearing up soon as she always does for a windy spring which usually dies down sometime around late June.

Today, I reflect back on a happy trip through Balmorhea, Texas, in which I overnighted a couple nights at the state park. In the late evenings, I always enjoy a hour long bike ride into the Chihuahuan desert west of the state park on Farm to Market Road 3078. Not many people take this two lane highway because they are in a hurry and stay on the Interstate. I am glad because it gives me the peaceful highway all to myself.

Eventually, I came upon what seems like an abandoned church but I do not think that it is empty.

Here, I encounter the nice little store near the state park that sells odds and ends for the visitors to the state park. Very nice inside and the owners are very nice, too.

The century plant blooms in majesty here in the desert. It will soon give up its life so that young ones may take root and start their long journey to rise and bloom.