The Cowboy Café
in downtown Roswell, located right across the street from the Roswell Farm
Supply Store, is the place where the locals get carbed-up for their workday.
After a hearty breakfast of flying saucer-sized pancakes, biscuits and gravy,
eggs and bacon, we went east on the 380 toward Texas.
You
immediately climb out of the pecan orchards and dairy pastures up to over 4000’
as you leave Roswell. After crossing into Texas, you go through the town of
Brownfield, which should really be called Redfield since the freshly plowed
cotton fields have a brick red color to them. Scattered among the fields are
many oil well pumps, a few flaming methane pipes, and lots of huge wind turbines.
It’s been very windy for the past two days and from the looks of the landscape,
this is not an unusual occurrence.
Turning south
on Highway 87, we entered some hilly country dotted with large groves of
mountain laurel trees near the town of Big Spring (Karen checked some Wiki
facts and found that the opening scenes of the 1969 film, ‘Midnight Cowboy’
were shot in Big Spring.
From this town all the way to San Angelo I saw dozens
of freshly-road-killed deer along both sides of the highway. It must be
migration season or something. In any case, it’s not a good season from a deer’s
perspective.
San Angelo
State Park is on the reservoir of O.C. Fisher Lake. The lake was having a ‘bad
hair’ day when I snapped a picture on my brief afternoon nature walk. At least
I got a few good shots of the local wildflowers. Dinner tonight is Walmart
rotisserie chicken and salad.
No fire or BBq allowed. Burn Ban in effect.
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