We Visit Tyler State Park

Last Saturday, Sandi and I loaded up and met Jerry and Judy at Tyler State Park.

As the name implies, it is located near Tyler, Texas.  It was the

first outing in Jerry’s and Judy’s  new Joey 20-foot travel trailer.

The only negative about Tyler SP was that it rained most of the time. There was just enough time to see the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden and walk around the lake.

 

Jerry, Judy, and Sandi at new Joey RV

 

Inside the Joey

 

Park scenery

 

Our Casita across the water.

 

Jerry at Bodacious Bar-B-Q

 

Sandi at Bodacious Bar-B-Q

Our caravan

We Return From Vega$

Wow! We had a week to enjoy Vega$. It was like the whole town was waiting for us. The weekend was a little crowded, but after Sunday, Vega$ was like a tomb. ...comparatively.

We saw the old timer. Wayne Newton. Hey! Wayne must be at least 70 now. He explained away his raspy voice. He said he had asthma. He performed for two hours without a break. I was impressed.

Then we saw the Folly's at the Bally. Loved it. Then we saw Legends.

For the first time in 40 years, I returned to Fremont street. It was nothing like the original. The Pioneer Casino is a T-shirt shop. In fact, most of the gambling dens are T-shirt shops now. The Golden Nugget is still there as are the Fremont and Four Queens casinos. We watched the bus driver and a passenger get into a fight on the city bus from the Sahara and Fremont Street. Wow! It's Vega$ baby.

All the old show venues are gone along the strip. It's out with the old and in with the new. We stayed at the Grand Desert Resort off the strip.

We go to Vega$ again

 

Yes! We went to Vega$.  The video tells the whole story.

Albuquerque Day 2

The second day we travelled to Santa Fe, the oldest capital city in North America.

Between 1821 and 1880, Santa Fe was the destination point of the Santa Fe Trail.   The trade route was extended from Santa Fe to Missouri.   Later, the trail served as an invasion route during the Mexican-American War.

It was raining when Sandi, Dawn, and me drove up Interstate Highway 25 to Santa Fe.

Once we got to Santa Fe, we realized that we left our coats in Albuquerque.  The temperature was 54 degrees. Our first task was to find appropriate clothing.

The old plaza is steeped in history. During the heyday of the Santa Fe Trail, the plaza was the central governmental area as well as a place of trade.  Today the business of Santa Fe’s Plaza is curio shops, art galleries, eateries, and restaurants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albuquerque Day 1

We arrived at the home of Sandi’s friends, Dawn and Bob Dalton.

The journey from our home to ABQ took 12 hours. 

Here are some highlights of a 12-hour trip from Plano to ABQ:

• The restrooms anywhere  between Wichita Falls, TX, and Amarillo are the nastiest in the world.  This is from my experience over many years!  If you make this trip, we recommend you hold it until you get to Amarillo.  I you cannot hold it, Childress, TX, is your best bet.
• At the same time, we enjoy the gradually changing the landscape between the above two points.  The landscape gradually changes from rolling prairies to desert plains.
• Towns along I-40 in New Mexico enjoy keeping their retro-Route 66 look.  Years ago, I-40 bypassed these towns, leaving their downtown areas frozen in time.  These areas flourished when travelers along the old U.S. Highway 66 flowed through the area.  These towns are Tucumcari, NM, and Santa Rosa, NM.
• We always love to stop at Clines Corners, NM.  Why?  We don’t know, but it is still a nice connection with Route 66. :-) Clines Corners is a combination gasoline station, restaurant, and curio shop in the middle of the desert.  It sits in the same spot miles from nowhere.  Along this stretch, I-40 follows the exact route as Route 66. 

Dawn and Bob live in a lovely  home in the suburban city of Rio Rancho, NM.  The architecture of most homes is wood frames with a stucco siding.  They are learning to adapt to the desert environment.  Water is very precious.  Their yard consists of stone pebbles.   A few desert shrubs they own are watered by drip irrigation.  Color of the landscape is a  beautiful desert pastel.  off in the distance is the beautiful Sandia Peak. 

The weather was rainy as can be the case in a desert.  Rain came in short showers.  Temperatures were coldish in the evenings and warming up during the day when the sun came out.  The relative humidity normally is in the low teens.

We Travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico

We’re going to leave our Casita at home and travel to New Mexico tomorrow. 

Sandi’s long-time girl friend, Dawn, recently moved to New Mexico.

I looked the address up on Google maps.  It has a nice view of Sandia Peak in the distance.

 

The Geology of the Area

Sandia Peak is part of the Sandia Range.  They are fault block mountains, meaning that they were pushed up from deep in the underlying rocks.  The force that caused the faulting was continental drift.   Just to the east of the Sandia Mountains, the terrain flattens out into a was once an ancient seabed.  

To the west of Sandia Peak is the city of Albuquerque, NM.  It sits in a deep depression on both sides of the Rio Grande.   The depression is known as the Rio Grande Rift Valley. 

A continental rift is geology is a place where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.  Click here for an explanation of a Rift Valley. 

The Rio Grande Rift occurred about 35 million years ago and runs from Colorado to El Paso, Texas.  Some people believe the Rio Grande caused the deep valley; but quite the contrary, the great river only uses the rift.

Will the rift continue to widen and sink?  Geologists believe the rift is stable, at least for the moment.

Flanking the Rio Grande Rift on the east and west is the San Juan Volcanic Field.  This field includes a large part of Northern New Mexico and Southwestern Colorado.  This field is the source of rich mineral, silver, and gold deposits.

The most recent volcanic activity in New Mexico was south of the Sandia Range near Socorro.  A near perfect cinder cone lies between Raton, NM, and Clayton, NM.  It is the 60,000-year-old Capulin Mountain.  

 Capulin is part of the Capulin Mountain National Monument.  It features a road to drive to the summit.  The last time Sandi and I went to Capulin, she became afraid and would not go into the crater.  Ha Ha!  There is also a trail around the crater rim.  The crater rim trail provides a spectacular view of the surrounding topography.  Every peak in the area is an extinct volcano.

Further north of Albuquerque and to the west of Santa Fe is Valles Caldera.  The caldera is a 12-mile-wide crater formed from a collapsed volcanic cinder cone.   The once secret atomic energy research site of Los Alamos sits on the slops of this Supervolcano class of volcano.

From my own observations, the volcanic eruptions have left long fingers of lava flows, huge deposits of of volcanic ash and thick formations of volcanic tuft.  It’s a spectacular landscape.

History of Albuquerque

According to Wikipedia:

The city was founded in 1706 as the Spanish colonial outpost of Ranchos de Alburquerque; present-day Albuquerque retains much of the Spanish cultural and historical heritage.

Albuquerque was a farming community and stra-tegically located military outpost along the Camino Real. The town of Alburquerque was built in the traditional Spanish village pattern: a central plaza surrounded by government buildings, homes, and a church. This central plaza area has been preserved and is open to the public as a museum, cultural area, and center of commerce. It is referred to as "Old Town Albuquerque" or simply "Old Town." "Old Town" was sometimes referred to as "La Placita" ("little plaza" in Spanish).

The village was named by the provincial governor Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdes in honour of Don Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, viceroy of New Spain from 1653 to 1660. One of de la Cueva's aristocratic titles was Duke of Alburquerque, referring to the Spanish town of Alburquerque. The first "r" in "Alburquerque" was dropped at some point in the 19th century, supposedly by an Anglo-American railroad station-master unable to pronounce the city's name correctly. Some New Mexicans still prefer the spelling Alburquerque; see for example the book by that name by Rudolfo Anaya. In the 1990s, the Central Avenue Trolley Buses were emblazoned with the name Alburquerque (with two "r"s) in honor of the city's historic name

Albuquerque is also the site of the Sandia Atomic Research Laboratories.

Sandia Base was located at Albuquerque.  I was one of three nuclear storage facilities along with Medina Base, south of San Antonio, TX, and Killeen Base, near Killeen, TX.

According to Wikipedia:

Sandia Base was from 1946 to 1971 the prin-cipal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense. It was located on the southeastern edge of Albu-querque, New Mexico. For twenty-five years, the top-secret Sandia Base and its subsidiary installation, Manzano Base, carried on the atomic weapons research, development, design, testing, and training commenced by the Manhattan Project during World War II. Fabrication, assembly, and storage of nuclear weapons was also done at Sandia Base. The base played a key role in the United States nuclear deterrence capability during the Cold War.

We Travel to Pagosa Springs, Colorado

It was a two-day journey up here. I drove all the. For those who don't know, Sandi had hip replacement surgery and really not up to driving.

We stopped by Capulin Volcano National Monument, NM, along the way. We drove to the summit. Sandi was terrified of the crater. This 10,000-year-old volcano is dormant, but Sandi had been reading about another volcano that recently became active.

There was a walkway to the bottom of the crater. We did not go there. There was a trail around the edge of the crater. We did not go their either.

I made the mistake of talking about the "dangers" and altitude (10,800 feet) of Wolf Creek Pass. Sandi was terrified! Luckily, the state of Colorado has video cameras on the pass and we could see the actual conditions on the pass before we left Amarillo on Sunday morning.

So the trip of the pass was very nice. There a lot of snow, but no ice on the road.

On the first morning, I got up early and caught a brilliant sunrise on my Nikon D-200 camera. Our Wyndham timeshare resort has a beautiful pond outside the back patio. The pond was glassy smoothe and the sunlight on the snow capped mountain tops was beautiful.

We spend the day driving around Pagosa Springs. We drove on a dirt road to get some mountain pictures. I wanted images without power lines and signs of human habitation. Those sights are hard to find driving around in a Lexus.

On Tuesday, we drove into Pagosa Springs and visited the hot springs.

On Wednesday, we drove to Chama, NM, where the Cumbres & Toltec narrow gauge railroad is headquartered. The rail route tops out at 11,000 foot elevation on the trip up to Antonita, CO. Everything was mostly closed. The trains don't run until around May 30th.

We go to Branson for some foot stompin'

For all of you who think that Foot Stompin' is dead, I say you haven't been to Branson, MO.

Yes! Foot Stompin' is very much alive in this little Ozark town of 6,000 happy souls. Country show places line a three-mile stretch of Highway 76 going west out of Branson. They call it The Strip. The highway rides along the crest of a hill, overlooking restaurants and hotels.

In years past, we always saw The Andy Williams Show at the Moon River Theatre. This year we decided to go country and gospel. The country show was The Pressleys. No relation to Elvis. But this show was the show that started it all in Branson. It is still going after 30 years.

Otherwise, what can I say. It was all country and corn-pone humor. No big names...just the family!

Again this year, we stayed at our Wyndam Resorts Time Share. It was called Branson at the Falls. It was very confortable and not far off of The Strip.

One thing that Branson is famous for is the dining. We chose a local restaurant the first night. On the second night we dined at Ruby Tuesday's. The rest of the time we took in the sights.

We have come to love the old downtown Branson. The town is situated on the bend of an Ozark river which we have never learned the name. We were surpirsed that a new Hilton Hotel was built since our last stay. Also they built a new shopping center and a full scale railroad that takes visitor around the Ozark Mountains.

The old downtown is still there and seemed to be busier than ever.

The second event we saw was a comedy gospel show. It was a family act. They were good, too.

The drive to and from Branson is one of the best parts. Nothing like The Ozarks.

We go to the State Fair of Texas

I had to wait three weeks for our schedules to allow us to go.

My print, Veracruz Dancers, won second place at the State Fair of Texas in the photojournalism category.

It was hanging behind a glass case in the Arts & Crafts center at the State Fair.

Meanwhile, I am thinking about going semi-pro. I submitted some photos only on a website where photographers can display and sell their photos. I got a nice phone call from the agent who asked me if anyone else was acting as my agent. They wanted to market my images!

The other day, I broke out my Muvee software and created two "shows". I uploaded two versions to YouTube.com and you can now click on the link at top left to see my YouTube trip to Las Vega$.

I entered a photo in the Plano Photo Club photojournalism photo contest and won honorable mention for one of the print.

The other print got a score of 11, which placed it just outside of HM.

The HM image was of a potter I photographed at a market in Croyden, south of London England. I named it English Pottery.

It was shot with my old Nikon CoolPix 5700, 5.1 megapixel camera.

The other picture, I named Protected Music. I found this image while walking on Burbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Several kookey Zydeco players were playing in the middle of the street. The dog seem to be protecting the musical instruments from all "threats".

Our New Cat: The Hunter

That's right! His name is The Hunter.

A co-worker of Sandi had to find a new home for The Hunter. He arrived two weeks ago last Tuesday. After a quick trip to the vet, I brought Hunter home and turned him out.

Immediately, our boy cat, Frankie, went to the protect mode. There were two days of hissing and spitting and growling. Then all of a sudden, they started acting like old friends. Our girl cat, Ellie, reluctantly accepted The Hunter, too.

Here are pictures of Hunter. He's a white cat with a tabby tail and tabby markings on his face. He has black pads on his feet.

Images show Hunter hiding behind the day bed on the first day (above left). Hunter getting his first bowl of tuna (middle right). Frankie in the "predator mode" (below right).

Hunter has a very nice disposition. He comes in and sleeps between my legs at night. His purr is soft. He also sits on the back of the couch in the evening when we watch TV.

Veracruz Dancers: Wins 2nd Place at State Fair

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Perhaps a little boasting is in order.

For the past two years, I have been submitting prints to the State Fair of Texas Photo Contest. I have won a ribbon every year.


This year I won 2nd Place for my print entitled, Veracruz Dancers. (See image at the top left of the blog.) It is a picture of two dancers in a troupe dancing to the music of Mexico. These dancers were wearing the costumes of Veracruz State. After I looked at the images on my computer I realized right away it may be contest grade. So I submitted it to the State Fair in the Adult Division. The category was People. The contest's theme is images from Texas.

I shot it with my Nikon D200, using a 18-70mm Nikkor DX lens.

The print was mounted on a grey cardboard. It will be displayed with a red ribbon behind a showcase in the Arts and Craft Building. The building is behind the Cotton Bowl.

I submitted a second image in the Floral Category. It won 10th place. It will not be displayed. The title of that print is Rose Swirl (top right). It is a simple image of a 'American Veteran' rose in my back garden. That day I noticed the rose bloom was almost perfect in that it was not fully opened. It looked like a red vortex of petals. One tiny tear drop of dew was on the rose. We planted the rose in 2001 to remember September 11. The tear drop seed to convey sadness for the victims of the tragedy of 9/11.

This year's wins add to the 3rd Place finish in 2006 for A Mature Tulip (above left) and Honorable Mention for My Friend Bill (see below). Earlier in 2006 Star Burst (bottom right) won 3rd Place in the Dallas Master Gardeners Photo Contest.


I had set up a meeting with Bill at Starbucks in Carrollton. He was seated and sipping coffee when I got there. I brought in my D200 sat it down and ordered coffee. While we talked, I snapped the picture that won Honorable Mention in the People Category.


A Mature Tulip was shot at the Dallas Arboretum. It was the Dallas Blooms celebration it holds every year. This was March or April 2006. I noticed one tulip was older and had opened. It seemed to have the elements of good composition. So I snapped it with my then new Nikon D200. I was sitting on a tripod because the tulip was in deep shade. It captured the subtle pastel of the tulip.




Rio Samba did not win any awards. It was published in the Plano Insider newspaper in May 2006. I submitted Rio Samba and several over prints to the editor of the newpaper for a feature article on the Collin County Rose Society's annual garden tour. I thought one of the gardens submitted by another photographer would be use. Even then I thought the image would go on an inside page. I was shocked to see it on the front page with my name as the photographer. A neighbor noticed it and asked me about it.


Star Burst was a shot using a flash. I don't really like flash as lighting. However, flash will help freeze a close up image. So when I submitted images to the Dallas Master Gardeners Photo Contest I looked for images with natural lighting and pastel colors. I had two good images that I liked, but the contest allowed three entires. I decided to submit Star Burst anyway. Oddly, the first and secon place winners were images using artificial lighting, too. The Master Gardeners invited me to their presentation meeting. They had a slide show of every entry. I was presented with a certificate and a prize. It was a very good day.

Labor Day at Glen Rose

It's Monday, Sept. 3

The pictures from top to bottom are CliftTex Cinema, Thompson Gallery, our egg home, and Sandi in the galley. Left click on the images to see a larger view.

Labor Day was very cool and relaxed. We got up after a very relaxing night. After breakfast and lunch we decided to drive down to Clifton. My cousin, L.A. Thompson, is rumored to be running a fine art gallery there. I had prepared a map using AAA Texas' mapping service, but we took the wrong turn before getting out of Glen Rose. To make a long story short, we drove 150 miles out of our way. Actually, it was a very nice diversion. The terrain was very hilly. A juniper and live oak forest covered the hill sides. Dotted amoung the trees and grassy valleys were quaint ranches and ranch houses.

We arrived in the Bosque County town of Clifton at about 2:30 p.m. So where is the gallery? The town's population was 3,671. We thought it would be easy to find an art gallery in such a small town. NOT! We stopped on the highway at a Shell gas station. The people there did not know that there was an art gallery in Bosque County. Finally, we found someone who thought there "might be" a gallery downtown.

"Jest take ah left at the red light. It's easy to find," she said.

She was right. No problem finding the red light. It was no problem finding the downtown either. This town is the poster kid for The Last Picture Show! The picture show incidently appeared to be still going strong. It was called the CliftTex Theatre. A sign said it was opened in 1916. Rush Hour was showing...maybe it will be showing next week. I don't know.

We kept looking for "the gallery". Finally, we found a gallery. We milled about in front only to determine it was closed. We walked down the street to find another gallery. This time we found it. A sign said, "Thompson Gallery". It was also closed! We called the number on the door. No answer. We left a message. We think she lived on the second floor. Perhaps she looked out the window, saw us, and decided to be "not at home". LOL!

On the way out of town, we stopped at the local Dairy Queen for a ice cream cone and a hot fudge sundae. Sad to say, Dairy Queen no longer tops their sundaes with a cherry. Bummer!

We drove back to Glen Rose, taking the short cut. It began raining when we got to the Casita. I snapped a picture of our "egg home" just before the rain.

Labor Day at Glen Rose

It's Sunday, Sept. 2

We got up before 8 a.m. It was a very pleasant night in the Casita. While Sandi dressed, I walked around Tres Rios again. The sun was right and I managed to capture an image of the confluence of the Brazos and Paluxy rivers.

It was afternoon before we got out. We drove over to Granbury. This time we walked around the old town square and visit the curio shops. The shops have expanded to the streets adjacent to the square since we have been here last.

The town was inandated by a motocycle gang. They billed themselves as a Christian MC gang. However, I noticed several motorcycle "preachers" were preaching to nobody. Nearby a group of bikers were shining their gleeming, chrome bikes or bliping their loud engines. In another 100 years, it will be an Islamic Motorcycle Gang. A motorcycle imam will be giving Quo'ran lessons.

We decided to get an ice cream cone. When started to leave, it was raining. So we ordered a meal. It was 5 p.m. by the time we finished eating. We drove back to Tres Rios in the rain. I think tomorrow we will drive to Clifton or West.

Labor Day at Glen Rose

It's Saturday, Sept. 1

Click on the images to get a larger view. The images are Somervell Courthouse, upper right; confluence of the Brazos and Paluxy rivers , bottom right; and dinosaur track, bottom left.

We got up at 8:30 a.m. and had a leisurly breakfast. The Casita was comfortable and cool. I set up the Casita's awning, although we are in partial shade from a huge elm tree.



I walked around the park and observed the three rivers -- actually it is two rivers and a creek. LOL! This is a beautiful setting for an RV resort. It's a pity that it is so remote and under utilized.




One of nature's wonders is where one river joins another. The Paluxy River empties into the Brazos River at the southeast corner of Tres Rios Resort. I have an image to document this natural wonder. (See photo.)



I wandered around the park while Sandi dressed. It was cool and the park showed signs of a recent rain. I hope it don't rain again; but again, perhaps it would cool things off a bit.

We stayed in Casita until noon. We had lunch inside. We carry enough food for every meal inside, but sometimes eat out. Tonight we will go into Granbury and see a live theatre performance based on the country singer Patsy's Cline's early years.


We drove into Glen Rose to go to -- yes you guessed it -- the nearest Dollar General store. LOL Sandi cannot pass up a DG! LOL. Then we went to a supermarket. The rest of the afternoon was in downtown Glen Rose. Get this picture. Glen Rose is the county seat of Somervell County. The old limestone courthouse, which is typical of Texas-style county seats, occupies the center of the square. (See picture.)


There was one bright note. Where 20 years ago there were empty buildings, the quaint curio shops have moved in. All of the town's businesses have moved to the highway. Besides ranching, the town's economy is princapally the Commanche Peak Nuclear power generating plant run by TXU utilities. Before 911, this facility was open to tours.


We visited the Somervell County museum and had a nice conversation with the docent. She was young, but reasonably knowledgeable of the county's history. One disppointment was the dinosaur tracks exhibit were close for renovations. Bummer! However outside and on the town square there are other incidental exhibits of large three-toed dinosaur tracks. (See pictures.)


I can only imagine what it was like when Somervell County was overrun by big, lumbering three-toed beasts! The best site for dinosaur tracks is Dinosaur Valley State Park. To see an internet site CLICK HERE. Go here to see a video CLICK HERE.


We cut our stroll around Glen Rose short when we noticed a dark rain cloud coming. Before we got to Tres Rios, the cloud turned into a heavy down pour with wind, thunder, and lightening. Luckily, we got back in time to save our awning! After the rain, the park was left standing in pools of water, which were still draining the next day. Mushrooms sprang up everywhere.

Sandi cooked dinner. Later we dressed up and and went to Granbury, which is about 15 miles away. They have an od restored opra house on the town square. Sandi and I love live theatre. Every seat in this house was nice. We got fourth row center seats. Get this! The play was written by a member of the old Waltons TV show cast. Her name was Judy Norton. She was Mary Ellen on the Walton series. The internet notes that she posed nude for Playboy back in 1985. Hmmmm! She wrote the play with a five-piece country band and a four-woman singing ensemble. Of course, there was only one Patsy Cline. No one can sing as well. These ladies did a very good job. We thoroughly enjoyed it!

On the drive back to Tres Rios, we ran into fog ... in September! Quite incredible!

Labor Day at Glen Rose

It's Friday, Aug. 31st

So we've decided to spend our Labor Day at Glen Rose, Texas, and the beautiful Tres Rios RV River Ranch Resort. Tres Rios means Three Rivers in Spanish.

Not going to New Mexico is unusual for us. We really enjoy Ruidoso, but we could not find an RV campground. They were all booked up! We had changed our plans about Yellowstone NP. It's the fuel cost. Ruidoso was our second choice.

Sandi got off of work at 3 p.m. Loaded up and drove over to the storage site. Our Casita had a minor repair. The plastic hose that connected the shower head to the sink, sprung a leak. I had repaired it with a new hose, but it was stiff and a bit longer. I think this will be a minor irritation.

We hooked up and started out to face the hated Dallas traffic. Now get this! Glen Rose is only 88 miles from our home. That should take perhaps an hour and a half. Right? Wrong! It takes one hour to drive out of Dallas!

We left the storage lot at 4:40 p.m. and arrived at 7:20 p.m. One hour was drving 20 m.p.h to 30 m.p.h. in Dallas.

Upon arriving at Tres Rios, we were surprised! The park was full. Get this! We called for reservations and were informed that it's first-come-first-serve. They tried and failed to park us on the end of a row. I refused to accept what I consider a substandard spot. I eventually got a simi-shaded spot between two BIG RIGS. Oh well, such is the life of a Casita owner.

Our neighbors were very nice. They talked to use while we set up. They were a family of five from Stephenville which is about 50 miles away.

The image at top right is our Casita. The Brazos River is top left. The Paluxy River is bottom right. Squaw Creek running into the Paluxy is botton left. Click on the images to get a larger view.

The Brazos is a Spanish word meaning arms. The original Spanish name for this river is the arms of God, Los Brazos de Dios. It was so named because a Spanish explorer, near death from thirst found the river and was saved. He proclaimed that he was saved by The Arms of God. So he named the river Los Brazos de Dios! The river flowes southeastward across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico. It begins at the edge of the Llano Estacado near Lubbock, Texas.

The Paluxy is famous for being the river of dinosaur tracks. Some traks from the Paluxy are display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. In fact, Dinosaur Valley State Park is just a few miles up river. When the Paluxy is low, large dinasaur tracks are revieled in the riverbed. There won't be any tracks visible this year because of the recent rains. However, Somervell County residents find dinosaur tracks in many places, chisel them out of the rocks, and display around the town of Glen Rose.

Tomorrow we will go into Glen Rose and drive over to Granbury for live theatre.