Running Low On Ideas, God Makes Oklahoma
It's a fair cop, though the southeastern and southwestern corners of the state as well as the panhandle have bits of interesting topography. Really, though, is there any interesting topography from Galveston, TX, on up through Kansas?
However, an even worse heresy has recently arisen: Die Hard is a Harry Potter movie!
Updates
"OTTAWA — Former Rightful-President Hillary Clinton has been awarded an honorary medical license by the Canadian Minister of Health due to her decades of experience providing dignified euthanasia services to men and women in America."
(It's actually worth the half minute it takes to read the whole article.)
"The pardon will reportedly cover any crimes that Sauron may have committed during the entirety of the Second Age of Middle Earth."
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From 2022 but still topical! Hillary Clinton Awarded Honorary Medical Degree by Canada (in recognition of her assisted-suicide skills)
I must object! Eastern OK you have lots of rolling hills, down southeast swamps(alligators and all), west rocky worn-down mountains, northwest desert, and prairie all over in between.
In between being host to hordes of ticks, chiggers, mosquitos, thorns rattlesnakes, all in sufficient quantity to make an ecologist sigh.
Thanks, Tex!
Firehand, objection duly noted.
Running Low On Ideas, God Makes Oklahoma...It's a fair cop, though the southeastern and southwestern corners of the state as well as the panhandle have bits of interesting topography.
I worked one spring on oil wells in SW Oklahoma. The rolling hills of green winter wheat reminded me of a green ocean.
Advance a decade. After driving to my aunt's home in SW Oklahoma, I drove her and her car to the OKC airport to take a flight to Phoenix for my sister's wedding. It was June, and the wildflowers were still going strong. I stopped a number of times to take photos of the wildflowers. My aunt asked me, "Why are you bothering to take those pictures?" "They're pretty." (We left plenty early, so stopping to take some photos wouldn't have risked missing our flight.)
The family gave the name of Death Valley to SW Oklahoma land that my uncle purchased 80+ years ago. My cousin owns it now. Some of my cousin's land is a Centennial Farm, as it has been in the family for over 100 years.
A hit around the time I worked that spring in SW Oklahoma: You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma.
Palo Duro Canyon, near Canyon (but of course!) Texas. And the breaks at the edge of the Caprock (Caprock Canyons State Park) if you prefer to see bison rather canyon walls.
I’m a fan of the regional terrain, but I’ve also been told by a number of people that I must have been dropped on my head at birth, so make of it what you will. :D
LittleRed1
The interest held in a landscape is often a matter of at what scale it is examined.
North Central Texas has a lot of wasted agricultural land overrun w mesquite. But when you cross the Red River into Oklahoma (Vernon), the mesquite disappears and you see working agricultural land. My cousin, who farms in SW Oklahoma, speculated that as landowners in North Central Texas were making money from oil and gas royalties (but not on the other side of the Red River in Oklahoma), they didn't bother to get rid of the mesquite because oil and gas royalties substituted for agricultural income.
That, and some outside buyers 1) think the mesquite is good for the deer [showing they know nothing about hunting or land management], and/or 2) don't want to pay the $15,000+ per acre to remove the mesquite. A few buy the land to hold for a few years and then sell to developers, or so they think they're going to do. If they don't have the water rights, well ...
LittleRed1
Good song. Wherever the people you love are is almost always a beautiful place.
That's on my list of places to visit!
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