A note I meant to put in a couple days ago - Texas Mountain Laurels are better known to us as Lilacs, like Texans they like to have there own thing.
http://tx.audubon.org/Sabal.html This is Sabal Palm Audubon Center and Sanctuary. We arrived to late to view the many birds this sanctuary offers. But we did the entire walk. The first two miles was on the trails below. It was where they filmed many of the Tarzan movies that I watched when I was growing up (or have I). This area was used because of the Sabal Palms made it look like Africa.
http://tx.audubon.org/Sabal.html This is Sabal Palm Audubon Center and Sanctuary. We arrived to late to view the many birds this sanctuary offers. But we did the entire walk. The first two miles was on the trails below. It was where they filmed many of the Tarzan movies that I watched when I was growing up (or have I). This area was used because of the Sabal Palms made it look like Africa.
Another Rio Grande shot, one over the sign and the green water shot with the water hyacinths washing along the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. This route was a mile walk.
This Audubon Sanctuary would be a must see. It is a nature walk in nature, the trails are not groomed nor are they covered with anything but dead leaves, palm branches, or hard packed earth, seems the only ones that can use the path besides us were red ants. Can't say enough about this area, after three hours of walking we called it over.
In the Sanctuary, there were flowers and this prickly pear was in bloom, this one although not in full bloom has a nice color to it. The other is a tree with red finger like blossoms.
Thought seeing that this is Good Friday we visited an old mid-1800 church now a Cathedral the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, and the next picture memorializes the day. 
This was a 1886 cemetery at Brownsville. Right is Born 1792. The area had many old grave sites. There were many markers tipped over and broken. Vandals probably, as the monuments were on solid ground or flat concrete bases, what a shame. few had people tending after them.
Stayed even with him until I missed a shift at 70!! It is a Ferrari 512 M.
This was right before we had to go through a Border Patrol stop, he asked are you American citizens, I said yes and he said go.
We ate mid afternoon at Vermillion Restaurant and Watering Hole, a Mexican style place. Shirleen had her old stand-by BBQ pork sandwich, I fish taco, they had a nice pico de gallo sauce, nice bite with the peppers. Before the meal she offered us a taste of Ceviche, marinated fish cocktail, with fresh cilantro, diced onions, tomatoes in fresh lime juice. The fish is sliced thinly placed in the marinate and placed in the refrigerator overnight, never cooked by heat but cooked by the lime juice.
Tonight we had little choice, Chili's, only place for a wine. We had there appetizer, three small hamburgers, cheese, bacon bites with fries and fried onions. Worked out fine.
jerr
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