Last summer, I traveled to a remote and wide open landscape of the far south southern coastal Texas range along the border between the US and Mexico: the Rio Grande Valley. The landscape there was unlike any I've experienced before and yet pieces of it felt so familiar: the white sand of the salt flats and gorgeous grasslands flowing under the Acacia trees.
Celery Fields
I trudged through the newly planted park with a group of birding enthusiasts on an unseasonably hot day for a guided tour of Celery Fields. The site is a flood mitigation project owned by Sarasota County and an interesting case study in changed land use from pesticide laden agriculture to recreation for birders and dirt bikers. The site has significant earthworks