"Wife," one longtime resident of Blanco Canyon was overheard sighing, "we've spent most of our forty years here just waiting for a rain " Blanco Canyon, on the edge of West Texas' Cap Rock, is a land of charm and brutality, generosity and denial, exquisite beauty after a rain and harsh death when the rains don't come. It is a land where over a hundred years ago one Captain J. C. McNeill started a cattle ranch in the mistaken hope that range and weather conditions then prevailing would continue. It is a land where his descendants still raise cattle, but with full knowledge now that any good...
"Wife," one longtime resident of Blanco Canyon was overheard sighing, "we've spent most of our forty years here just waiting for a rain " Blanco Canyo...