The Beauty of West Texas
February is the month for Valentine's and so I decorated my table with my Christmas presents from Tressa and Andrew. So excited for these new additions.
Love my new Gnomes!
West Texas is high and low country, where my dad and Connie have property is up high and then when you go to Midland it is in a basin. Fun fact: the Midland Basin, the eastern sub-basin of the Permian Basin, is a major oil and natural gas producing region located in West Texas.
Spanning an extensive area of approximately 20,000 square miles, the Midland Basin is bounded by the Central Basin Platform to the west. Its geological richness and significant hydrocarbon resources have made it a focal point of exploration and production activities.
Not only is this area beautiful to me, but the clouds and sky are amazing. We do get wind and sometimes that isn't great because the dust gets into everything. It is something else to be out here and to quote a neighbor, "This area heals me". I get that for sure.
Hubby took this picture of the moon. Unfortunately they have
started putting windmills up, that is what the red lights are.
This was the sky last Wednesday, just love it.
On one of our trips to Fort Stockton, we stopped at an historical marker. It is interesting to me to see these markers and find out what happened in the past. We have a town in Texas named Giddings, and I will need to do some research to see if this marker and the town were named after the same person. I can't even imagine what it would be like to ride a stagecoach back in the mid 1800's. Somehow people did it and survived, although others didn't.
Sorry for my shadow.
Hubby belongs to different Texas and RV Facebook groups and found this article and thought it would be fun to include in the blog. It is about Llano, Texas. You may have heard of the Llano Estacado, commonly known as the Staked Plains but perhaps more accurately interpreted as the "palisaded" plains in geological terms. It is the southern extension of the High Plains of North America into Texas. But can you say exactly where it lies in Texas and New Mexico? This handy map shows you exactly where it is.
Down in the bottom of the yellow area, Midland, Texas.
The Texas Quote of the Day is a description of the Llano Estacado as written by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in a letter to the king of Spain on October 20, 1541: "I reached some plains so vast, that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although I travelled over them for more than 300 leagues . . . with no more land marks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea . . . . there was not a stone, nor bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by." 311 years later, United States Army captain Randolph B. Marcy, who led an expedition to explore the headwaters of the Canadian and Red rivers in 1852, echoed Coronado's impressions of the region: "It is much elevated . . . very smooth and level . . . without a tree, shrub, or any other herbage to intercept the vision . . . the almost total absence of water causes all animals to shun it: even the Indians do not venture to cross it except at two or three places."
Hubby also put some bird seed on the roof of the storage shed and took a picture this interesting bird. He looked up the bird and found out it is a Canyon Towhee. God is so creative, not only the skies He paints but the creatures He creates.
He is so cute.
Hubby is keeping up with the game camera daily and usually we see a lot of deer and occasionally some other creatures. Last Thursday, there was another javelina or as you might recall from a past blog, a skunk pig. We need to somehow get rid of them, they scare off the deer.
Not sure why he wants alfalfa.
Friday, we prepared for a big rain storm. Clouds rolling in, wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour. It was crazy.
I sat inside watching the wind through the windows. Hubby was outside waiting for the rain.
About an hour later, after this picture was taken, I heard thunder.
And now the rain is here!
After the rain.
God set His bow in the sky!
Saturday, I was able to get my hair cut, and boy did it need it. It is short and trying to grow. I want the back longer, like almost to my shoulders, but it is having a hard time getting there. "Keeping it real" the top and sides grow faster than the back. I was able to find McLayne here in Iraan and was I happy to get to know her and to have a person close when I need my hair tended too.
I like the way McLayne cut my hair.
Praying the person in that car was able to get out safely.
Last Thursday the National Weather Service (Weather Prediction Center) forecast rain totals possible more than fifteen inches along the Central California coast and the Northern Sierra Nevada. Between six to eight inches of rain are forecast over northern California. Praying our friends and family stay safe and dry.
This picture was taking in Sacramento County.
"Sunshine doesn't need to end just because it is raining." Anthony T. Hincks.
Praying the rain ends soon and that there will be no more loss of life. May God place His mighty hands upon all who are in need, hurt, wounded or troubled.
Today is also the Pro-Bowl and I am excited to watch. More importantly is that I need to plan a menu for the Super Bowl - go 49ers!!!!!
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God, the RV & me...
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God, the RV & me...
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