"Deep in the heart of Texas, the Hill Country's limestone heights bend with the Balcones Escarpment and unfold west for some 200 miles [322 kilometers]…nowhere else in Texas is the show of wildflowers, such as purple vervain and fiery Indian blanket, more profuse—and striking—than here."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Texas Hill Country," April 1999, National Geographic magazine)