... but it's a waste of my time and energy. Other people do that much better. I've got links at the bottom of this page, to sites that do a much better job than I can of ranting, and explaining the obvious. Instead, I'd just like to put up more pics I've taken around town. I've got a mix of color photos and black & white.
I'll have more of these in future posts. I like to think that my photos go straight to the heart of things. You might ask: "What things??" That's a reasonable question. I'd tell you the answer, except that I really despise metaphysics.
... and believe me, I could have taken many, many more. They really have a lot of stuff.
The last pics were taken in a simulated frontier village. What was different about that exhibit, you could actually walk into the buildings and you were not forced to stay behind ropes. Of course, they had security cameras.
I'm just trying to get all the pics up. I'd like to move on the the Knight's Inn section.
Here is another batch of pics from the Panhandle Plains Museum, in Canyon, Texas. Canyon has a college, part of the A&M system, with an enrollment of over 8000, by the way. That, plus the oil boom, is making the small city of Canyon quite prosperous.
Here in Lubbock, TTU's enrollment exceeded 33,000 for the current semester (Fall, 2013). You can see the difference those students make when you drive anywhere in town. Lots of extra traffic, especially around Tech and the places where these kids party and shop. Texas Tech infuses massive amounts of money into the local economy. Lubbock is also benefiting from the oil boom. Jobs seem plentiful. Let the good times roll...
My wife thinks that name of that BBQ place was FAT BOYS. She is probably right. Well, FAT BOBS might have been a better name, giving it a Harley connection. At any rate, the museum took us two hours to tour. Here is the first installment of pics:
This museum has a local focus, but the time span ranges from the Cambrian to about the 1950's. Especially interesting are the oil industry exhibits and the reproductions of early habitations. It is really obvious in this area that an OIL BOOM is taking place. We saw several convoys of immense oil field equipment while on the road, and signs of boom times in every little community. Unfortunately, such prosperity has always been cyclical, part of a boom-bust cycle. There's no reason to believe that the current drilling binge will be any different.
