This is the view from the driveway, which was already in place.

There are a number of large trees and some cleared space. The cows kept the grass short.

This is a large mesquite tree. Mesquites grow on over-glazed land, and are rather undesirable. They have thorns when they are small. We plan to selectively cut some of the mesquites.

More mesquites.

You see some oaks. We also have cedar elm on our land.

Here are our oaks and cedar elms.

Here are some Bluebonnets. They are the Texas state flower. These digital pictures don't do justice to how pretty they are.

Here's our pond. It looks very green because we had a sudden duckweed explosion. The duckweed gradually subsided in a few weeks.

Terri and our friend Laurie, dicussing what to do with the pond. We tried scooping out some duckweed, but soon we gave up.

The pond is kind of L-shaped, and one end of it dries up in the summer. Here it's already starting to dry out in early May.

Another shot of the drying pond.

Here is our prized cactus speciman. With Terri standing next to it, you can see how big it really is. The land has many cacti like this one (of course, most are smaller). We're thinking about naming our acreage "Sabo Ten Garden." "Saboten" means cactus in Japanese.