Saturday 3-1-08, was sunny & 79 degrees out with a light wind. I was bored & Janice was napping because she had to go to work that afternoon. I wanted to take the bike out for a ride. I asked Amy & Amanda if they wanted to go but neither wanted to. So I got on the bike & rode to Russ & Linda's. They weren't home. Found out I just missed them because they left about 10 minutes before I got there to ride up to the Wichita Mountains outside of Lawton Oklahoma. So, I set off for Olney Texas which is 41 miles South of Wichita Falls on Texas 79. These photo's are of that short but fun ride. The first pic is of the Texas 79 sign.
This is the Archer City limit sign. This is were they filmed the movie "Texasville". Janice is in that movie as an extra at the rodeo scene. She is the girl in the blue dress. Anyway, that water tower you see in the pic is the one the guys were on in the town party scene.
As I drove through Archer City, I saw this on the side of the road. It was about 5 feet wide & 6 feet long & was made out of iron. It is a horny toad with an ant on its tongue..I thought this was pretty kewl.
Another pic of the iron toad. It stands maybe 2 1/2-3 feet high.
Archer County had been having some bad grass fires during February. They were even talking about evacuating Archer City. Here are some pics of the burned fields & pancake cactus's that got burned up. That hill in the background is about a mile away and is burned all around it and past it.
Close up of the burned cactus's
The bike with the scorched earth beyond it..That's all you could smell for miles is that smoke smell. That & dead skunks every 1/2 mile from Wichita Falls southward..It was a bad week for skunks trying to cross Tx 79 too.
This is what the cactus's should of looked like. These are in my backyard & started out as just 2 pancake's. They add more every year which is pretty amazing.
For those of you surfing the blogs & have never seen a mesquite patch, then today's your lucky day. This is a mesquite patch off of Tx 79 & if you ever have to go through one (I have been through many while hunting), watch out for the thorns on the branches of these bad boys. I have seen thorns over two inches long and they are sharp!!
The bike on the shoulder of the road on Tx 79 somewhere between Archer City & Olney.
At last, the Olney City limit sign. I drove on for about 1/2 mile, didn't see anything very interesting , so I turned around & headed home.
Getting ready to made a U-turn & head back North on Tx 79 from Olney. Its a fun ride & kills an hour or so. This is the view back North from the just outside of Olney.That's it for now, If ya wanna see the pic bigger, click on the pic.....Until next time....John
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