Writing about our last stop, Seminole Canyon State Park near Comstock, TX. We found this little park and campsite completely by accident. Arrived at 2 PM and managed to join a 3pm volunteer led tour of the Canyon floor which featured instruction in the local flora, and a history lesson of the ancient people who lived there, leaving pictographs, and petroglyphs, 3,000 - 4,000 yrs
Before the Present, pre-dating Mesa Verde! Oldest in the US.
Not a lot of water in west Texas. These ancient cultures were ruled by Shamans (here's a cool sculpture).
There is evidence of their kitchen work (mortars in the stone for crushing grains).
And pictographs:
And much older fossils in the rock:
We're fortunate to be here in a time of desert blooming wildflowers cactus and other flora:
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