The Great Texas Fly Over

 

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On a return flight from San Diego to Dallas. A pretty good rain had fallen over the proceeding two days and I was surprised with a clear Pristine sky out my window where the bright blue sky touched the plains over West Texas. The view was amazing.

 I realized I was seeing, what many probably had not seen or noticed as these preoccupied passengers flew between their destinations.

 As we crossed into Texas at El Paso, the vast plains of west Texas rolled by beneath us. For miles we saw, like little points of light, what seemed like thousands of oil well sites as far as the eye could see.

 Some working, some not working and many abandoned sites with perfectly straight strings of dirt roadways like ant tracks connecting them where the gas and oil was being pulled from the earth beneath us.

 As we moved farther east, I could see many of these former sites were now being occupied by Wind Turbines lazily turning in the always persistent West Texas wind.

 Then the tan scrub land melded into the more greener  crop circles, farms and ranches stretching from horizon to horizon.

 They then coalesced into small towns and farms some being pushed aside with the new home developments that were popping up all over Texas.

 The land then became more populous giving way to the bustling highways, buildings and businesses of the Metroplex.

 Then just as suddenly, we were back to Dallas and Love Field and my return home.