I haven’t lived on the plains of West Texas in 40+ years, but my parents still do. Every time I make the drive from Dallas to Cisco there is a spot just the other side of Weatherford where you top a rise and that wide open plain stretches out in front of you. It’s at that moment that my heart knows it’s home.
I know just the spot you are talking about! That's where the Cross Timbers start to give way to the Rolling Plains and it can be a spectacular change in ecology and vegetation. It's easy to miss those unique pieces of our world on an interstate highway at 75 mph, but they're still very present if we allow ourselves to experience them.
I'm a woods and hills guy—it's in my blood—but I love to listen to anyone wax poetic on the beauty of their local ecology. The Llano Estacado has always intrigued me, in books and movies and my one time driving through it.
I haven’t lived on the plains of West Texas in 40+ years, but my parents still do. Every time I make the drive from Dallas to Cisco there is a spot just the other side of Weatherford where you top a rise and that wide open plain stretches out in front of you. It’s at that moment that my heart knows it’s home.
I know just the spot you are talking about! That's where the Cross Timbers start to give way to the Rolling Plains and it can be a spectacular change in ecology and vegetation. It's easy to miss those unique pieces of our world on an interstate highway at 75 mph, but they're still very present if we allow ourselves to experience them.
I'm a woods and hills guy—it's in my blood—but I love to listen to anyone wax poetic on the beauty of their local ecology. The Llano Estacado has always intrigued me, in books and movies and my one time driving through it.