Found in new garden bed

My apologies, snuffy, I should rephrase that. The photos that you posted of the washes did not have that much green in them. You definitely have some green there in your part of Texas! That's what all that liquid sunshine is good for. We just don't get enough rain here in SoCal to green everything up like that. Sometimes in the spring it'll green up for a month or two, then back to the browns.

There were horned lizards in San Diego when I was growing up. Their last holdouts were the canyons between the housing developments, built during the 1950s (the house I grew up in, my avatar photo was taken in the front yard). Still see a lot out in the desert, but also some east of the city, in the back country.