Scott’s Adventures in Texas
Water Wheel Observation Point- Palo Duro Canyon
There used to be a small stream here that meandered down the hill and went over the edge of the canyon and fell into a deep dark hole below us. The land's owner built himself an observation platform, erected a light pole, and built a water wheel that...
Sandell Drive In Clarendon, Texas
Drive In movies, in the fifties, were a popular family outing and also a place where teens, borrowing the family car, could get away and explore birds and bees in the back seat of station wagons. The latest Hollywood movies were projected onto huge...
Goodnight Home Snapshots
Snapshots are all I have of the inside of the Goodnight home, taking us back to the late eighteen hundreds and early 1900's. Mr. Goodnight died just after the stock market crash of 1929 and he, at 93, was ready to move on, feeling he had lived in the...
Charles Goodnight J and A Cattle Ranch
Not far from Clarendon, Texas is the homestead and ranch headquarters of Charles Goodnight, a pioneer Texas rancher. In the mid to late 1800's, he controlled a ranch of over a million acres, had 180 cowboys on his payroll, and was an industry by himself....
Palo Duro Sunrise Deer Ears and a red sun
This mule deer beelines to Alan's back yard to have dessert. There are sunflowers off Alan's back porch and when this deer snaps one off the stem he looks like a little kid eating a piece of brightly colored candy. When I move towards a large living room...
Texas Cattle morning walks
I'm back in Texas. These cattle watch me intently as I cross the road to take their group portrait. I walk slowly, stop, give them a chance to get used to my intrusion. They are congregated by a fence line and don't really want to give up their ground....
Texas Turkey’s Lunch in Palo Duro Canyon
Driving back roads through flat dry West Texas prairie, one comes upon mule deer grazing among mesquite trees. They look at you as you pass with dark intense eyes. They are always aware, can turn quick and be gone even quicker, leap over barbed wire...
Fishing/Palo Duro Canyon Trout fishing in March
Palo Duro Canyon cuts through Texas like a big spoon in a tub of ice cream at a church social. We load three poles, a tackle box, frozen corn, rubber worms and salmon eggs, and navigate three locked gates to get down to the prime fishing holes. There are...
Big Tex/ Canyon,Texas As big a guy as they come
In Canyon, Texas there is a relic from the fifties that overlooks the freeway that plows through town. This giant statue of a cowboy is known as "Big Tex". He has been here as long as townspeople can remember and civic leaders have started a fundraising...
Lady Buffs/ West Texas A&M Regional Championships
Buffalo's are not small, short, slender animals. In fact, they have a reputation for hardiness, tolerance for adverse circumstances, and supported Indian's on the Great Plains for hundreds of years. The Lady Buff''s of Texas A&M College in...
Cerulean Gallery/Amarillo Show in Amarillo after lunch
Contemporary Fine Art is the calling card of this small gallery in Amarillo. It's owners feature works of emerging local, regional and national artists in nine exhibitions a year. They offer personal consulting services and support the community by...
Cadillac Ranch Gift Shop/Texas Every tourist needs a memento
Just down the frontage road from the Cadillac Ranch is the Cadillac Ranch gift shop. It is before nine in the morning so it isn't open but they have a sign out front that encourages lollygagging. This gift shop is presided over by a twenty foot tall...
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