Amarillo to Tulsa. We planned a stop at a State Park, a detour to a Tallgrass area (but how interesting would that be in February?), and then heavy rain made this a simple "let's get there' road trip.
Before leaving Texas we encountered another wind project - again mostly to the north of the highway, and stretching along that horizon as far as I could see ahead and behind. Also more smaller projects here and there. Texas: oil, cattle, wind turbines. Miles and miles. I keep bringing this up because I am so impressed at the scale of the investment.
In Oklahoma, more cattle, oil, and wind turbines, but not quite on the same scale, at least from what we saw in our limited survey. To bypass Oklahoma City we detoured off of the Interstate to sample the countryside. Looked much like home, at least compared to the dramatic topography of Arizona and New Mexico. Fields, cattle, oil pumps, small towns. Fast travelling transport trucks took any fun out of the drive so I headed back the easy-driving Sunday Interstate.
One whole day and not one photo. Not even on the phone. It was a straight through drive, really.
So let's just go on a virtual detour to colour this place up a bit. In backing up photos yesterday I happened upon this one from a trip in 2017.
This is a Great Green Macaw in I photographed in Costa Rica during a February 2017 escape from Ontario winterland. We visited a sanctuary working to help grow the numbers of these amazing birds.
I hope that is suitable compensation for a lack of pics of rain-swept Oklahoma agricultural landscapes. There is a lot of ag history here, for example the cattle trade over the last 110 years. But time and weather didn't allow exploration. Next time.
Tomorrow we aim for St Louis and then two more legs and we're home. Then maybe I'll find time (?) to go back and fill in some more photos of the amazing places we visited on this trip.
stay hopeful and spread your wings,
j
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