Trip to Amarillo

We recently went to Amarillo to visit our son who lives there...

For some reason, there were so many interesting sights to see on the way home...

I started a list just so I could remember!  

Some funny:   

The Clarendon Outpost - we stopped there for gas, 

but it also had a full grill + 50s diner, 

gifts,

jewelry,

jerky, 

tiaras 

(YES there WERE Tiaras - be looking for those lady truck drivers wearing one!) ,

fabric you could buy "by the yard"

(for those ladies quilting on the road),

yarn, 

wheelchairs (that one I just don't know about...),

and good flavored coffee to buy "by the cup";

and finally - probably most importantly - 

hand-dipped Blue Bell ice cream!

some I wanted to remember for art projects:

Live well...laugh much...love horses

Cowboy morning trailing company

some firsts:

a motocross track out in an open field with bikes leaping the mounds -

I could imagine the dads out there building the course for their kids...maybe even themselves!

I saw my first cotton field with cotton bursting forth from the ripe pods...

cotton bales

stubble in fields already picked

walking irrigation units...

some corny:

Happy Pumpkin Ponderosa

 some inspirational...

a pasture full of shorn sheep

Water into Wine collection - 

that one just makes me want to go back just to see what it is about!