Dallas: About the first thing we thought about was, of course, where Kennedy was shot. This is the Texas School Book depository. The entire sixth floor is a museum; very poignant, but they wouldn't allow pictures.
Where he was shot: the X on the street doesn't have any explanatory sign. Doesn't need one.
But there's a lot more. For one thing, the oil. They had this old Mobil sign, just uncrated, and were going to put it up somewhere.
Then we rode a Streetcar named Petunia (one of the others they got from Australia; that was named, naturally, Matilda)
To the Dallas Art Museum
Where he was shot: the X on the street doesn't have any explanatory sign. Doesn't need one.
But there's a lot more. For one thing, the oil. They had this old Mobil sign, just uncrated, and were going to put it up somewhere.Then we rode a Streetcar named Petunia (one of the others they got from Australia; that was named, naturally, Matilda)
To the Dallas Art Museum
Where they had a lot of stuff. This is by Max Ernst: The King playing with the Queen. You could think of chess of course, but of other things too.
Jonathon Borovsky: "Walking to the Sky". Had to really crane our necks to take it all in. The guys on the ground are part of it too.
And, the old downtown area. New Orleans is not the only city that's gotten flooded out.
But apparently they learned to laugh at it a bit.
Dallas is a big city, somebody told us, but Fort Worth is still a town. It is a city, of course, but there was a sort of small-towny feel to it.
Joan Miro's Mooncow:
Jonathon Borovsky: "Walking to the Sky". Had to really crane our necks to take it all in. The guys on the ground are part of it too.
And, the old downtown area. New Orleans is not the only city that's gotten flooded out.But apparently they learned to laugh at it a bit.Dallas is a big city, somebody told us, but Fort Worth is still a town. It is a city, of course, but there was a sort of small-towny feel to it.If Dallas is oil, then Fort Worth is cattle. First, the Stockyards (now closed): Locomotive turntable, so the trains that came in empty could load up with cattle and go back the way they came.
Statue of Bill Pickett, credited with inventing Bulldogging a steer, and the first champion at it. He was black; apparently a fair number of them were black, the heyday of it all being right after the Civil War.
Yep, they still brand the horses...
Conditions were a bit rough in the old days...
After the museum, the Buffalo Butt Bar. On the other side of the partition, in the dining room, was the front half of the buffalo. Seemed a shame to waste the other half, I guess.
Texas Taxidermy
Then, the museums, which are all in this one park. The National Cowgirl Hall of Fame: Mostly rodeo riders; but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is in it, for having grown up on a ranch and written a book about it.
Barb saying hi to T-Rex
The Kimbell Art Museum
Buddhas
The Amon Carter Museum specializes in Western art: After all the press they give to the guys who ride the horses, this is a kudos (Yes, being a Greek word, kudos is the singular form) for a horse:
A Grant Wood of Parson Weems, who preserved the story about G Washington and the Cherry Tree. A bit tongue in cheek - note the old head on young George.
The Fort Worth Botanical Garden: The 'EarthKind' idea is to develop roses that will grow in Texas without using a whole lot of water and fertilizer.
' Julia Child' Roses
'Hot Cocoa' Roses
Wild Blue Yonder Roses (No, I don't know why they're red)
Pond with a whole lot of turtles on the rock
Cactus Garden: Prickly Pears
Cholla
'Texas Horse Crippler'
A really Texas-sized Japanese Garden, including this lake
And a Zen garden
Bird statues; doesn't the real bird look a little disdainful?
Then, to El Paso. Greater El Paso has about 1 million people; Juarez, across the border, has two million. A lot of them cross evey day to go to work
And a whole lot more try and (maybe) get caught. There was a border guard about every quarter-mile, plus barbed wire, the Rio Grande River and an irrigation ditch; but still a lot of them try.
A stutue in front of the main library:
A Zen-garden looking drainway for when it rains
El Paso is a rail hub. Note the flatcars: They can carry containers off ships, or by raising the platform at the end of the car, Semi trailers.
The rare and sought-after Jackalope, a cross between the jackrabbit and the antelope. There have been numerous sightings, so they say, but all of females, who of course don't have the horns...
Statue of Bill Pickett, credited with inventing Bulldogging a steer, and the first champion at it. He was black; apparently a fair number of them were black, the heyday of it all being right after the Civil War. Yep, they still brand the horses...
Conditions were a bit rough in the old days...
After the museum, the Buffalo Butt Bar. On the other side of the partition, in the dining room, was the front half of the buffalo. Seemed a shame to waste the other half, I guess.
Texas TaxidermyThen, the museums, which are all in this one park. The National Cowgirl Hall of Fame: Mostly rodeo riders; but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is in it, for having grown up on a ranch and written a book about it.
Barb saying hi to T-Rex
The Kimbell Art Museum
Buddhas
The Amon Carter Museum specializes in Western art: After all the press they give to the guys who ride the horses, this is a kudos (Yes, being a Greek word, kudos is the singular form) for a horse:
A Grant Wood of Parson Weems, who preserved the story about G Washington and the Cherry Tree. A bit tongue in cheek - note the old head on young George.
The Fort Worth Botanical Garden: The 'EarthKind' idea is to develop roses that will grow in Texas without using a whole lot of water and fertilizer.
' Julia Child' Roses'Hot Cocoa' Roses
Wild Blue Yonder Roses (No, I don't know why they're red)
Pond with a whole lot of turtles on the rock
Cactus Garden: Prickly Pears
Cholla
'Texas Horse Crippler'
A really Texas-sized Japanese Garden, including this lakeAnd a Zen garden
Bird statues; doesn't the real bird look a little disdainful?
Then, to El Paso. Greater El Paso has about 1 million people; Juarez, across the border, has two million. A lot of them cross evey day to go to work
And a whole lot more try and (maybe) get caught. There was a border guard about every quarter-mile, plus barbed wire, the Rio Grande River and an irrigation ditch; but still a lot of them try.A stutue in front of the main library:
A Zen-garden looking drainway for when it rains
El Paso is a rail hub. Note the flatcars: They can carry containers off ships, or by raising the platform at the end of the car, Semi trailers.
The rare and sought-after Jackalope, a cross between the jackrabbit and the antelope. There have been numerous sightings, so they say, but all of females, who of course don't have the horns...
