Visit to Big Bend National Park

Today we went to Big Bend National Park. The vistas are just awsome! I have included a few photos that I took today but it by no means shows the wonder of the landscape we saw today.
When we saw this mountain in the distance the first thing I thought of was the spires of a cathedral. Turns out that the name given by the early pioneers was Mule Ears! Guess they had a different perspective than I did!
I wanted this picture to come up first but it didn't. Guess I will have to read the instructions again.
This is a photo of the Rio Grande River exiting Santa Elena Canyon. The power of water on rock is evident here. Over many years it has cut out this route through the mountain.

We traveled a great distance around the park today and took a lot of photos which I will share in other posts as 4 seems to be the limit per post. Every mountain and spot has a name but we are not familiar enough to point them out in great detail. We just enjoy the beauty of them. The Park covers over 800,000 acres so there is a lot of open country as well which was being used in earlier times by ranchers and subsistance farmers.