Travels with Howie

October 21,2014 10 pm cst  75 degrees

It will still be Howie's blog but  our wonderful traveling companion suffered from what the vet thought was probably a brain tumor and we eased his suffering on Aug 4th, a very sad day for us.

Plymouth Pond at the height of fall color.  We are fair weather Mainers.  When the weather looks like it is going to get tough, the tough leave and go to Texas.

Saw some strange sights on the way.

 This is what Google Maps showed us when we came into Fort Worth. That blue arrow is us but it doesn't say which of those many layers of road we are on. Glad I wasn't driving.

 It was rush hour but this  wasn't too bad.  Slow but it kept moving.

Spent a day with Matt, Lori, Janice and of course Gus.  He  is kinda small and round and he has only one eye, but he has charisma!  Love that face

We northerners might look at this picture and think it  looks like blocks of snow, but it is actually huge bales of cotton waiting to be ginned. 

the newer more cost effective way of getting cotton to the gin is in round bales.

  

This appears to be a disposal site  for leather sofas.  I believe there are 6 of them there.

These lawn and garden statues are so fierce.  I cannot imagine a setting for them.  Who would buy them and how would they be used?  Maybe they are for Halloween to keep the   trick-or-treaters away. Can you visualize a 5 year old girl dressed in a little princess outfit going up on the porch to trick-or-treat where these guys are standing guard?

Bet you don't know what a Kermes is.  Me either but I looked it up: a spanish word for a fund raiser, a carnival.