The beginning of this year begins in South Texas along the Rio Grande river, but I am only there a short time before beginning my journey again for another year. I continue inland up along the river to Del Rio and enter the west Texas Chihuahuan Desert where I look to camp for the night at the campground in Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

A long drive across the west Texas desert finds my approaching Guadalupe Mountains National Park from the south. As the sky in the west begins to illume, I stop to take a couple of photos.

The next morning, after camping just above a mile high at Pine Springs campground, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, I rise and wait for the sun touch.