Disappointing.

It was disappointing to see so little of Honey Creek. However, I wasn’t going to cause a scene.

It was especially disappointing considering how beautiful Honey Creek is, even in this terrible drought Texas is in.

Honey’s water was full and flowing. The Guadalupe’s waters are low. Way, way low. It was kinda’ depressing to see.

Honey’s water was tinged a dark emerald. Maybe that’s its natural spring color. Maybe the cypress tannins have something to do with it.

Regardless, Honey Creek is 110% worth seeing again. I will see it again. I will get a better photo – this one’s too “busy”. My options yesterday were limited. I’ll leave it at that.

Nonetheless, here occurred to me a reason why the Texas Hill Country is special.

Of course the hilly topography’s pretty.

Of course the junipers, yuccas and cactus give the land a distinctly Western America feel – I say the West begins here.

Of course the sun can shine mightily and bring out the colors of this land like the omnipresent light of the Desert Southwest.

However, it’s the cypress trees aligning the spring-fed streams – and palmettos – that suggest the wetness of Eastern America is making one last attempt to bring the land under her weather domain.

And in the process I see the best of the West and East come together, here.

Maybe that’s exaggeration.

But I don’t think so.