So Rae, Matt and I hit the road on Saturday morning, the day before Easter, and headed for East Texas. It was time to get out of town. We didn’t go all the way to Louisiana, but it was still nice to get a way and see some of the country side. It was fun.
On our travels we came to an animal farm called Texotica. Yes, your right, an exotic animal farm. We looked at what we thought were longhorns, but the huge, pointy horns were not ones found on native longhorns, Matt thought they might be from India or someplace.
We wanted to get a picture.
We turned around on the highway and stopped along the access road. As we stepped out of the car and you could smell the exotic animals, oohhh how you could. Eeeewwwwww.
Once the big horned mammals noticed what we were doing, they weren’t for it, so they slowly started to turn away and move in the opposite direction to where we had the tripod all set up for a photo.
Now, not only were their huge, horned beasts at the farm, there were also camels. Yup – the ones that spit. But we didn’t think riding them would be wise and by my husband reaction to them approaching us, it wasn’t a good thing to get close to them. So, they liked us and came to the fence, putting there heads through the fence to smell, eat whatever the ground had to offer. We jumped in the car and looked safely through the window at these exotic bumpy animals.
This is a quick photo – “hurry before the camel eats us!”
Now, Matt really wanted a photo of these crazy horned beasts, so we drove around to the side of the fence to where they were headed to get a photo.
What do you think he is thinking?
“Man, these horns are heavy! Could I just put them down, just for a little awhile??”
So we got the photos and Matt was heavy.
The rest of our afternoon was great ! And on our way back to the Dallas area we stopped to get a glimpse at the beautiful wildflowers.
Texas is neat in this spring season. There are loads (should be if the winter is generous in rain) of wildflowers along side the interstates. There wasn’t a lot of rain this past winter so they aren’t as nice as they were last year, so we were on a mission on this road trip to find a patch of good blue bonnets (Texas state flower) to get some photos of.
So on the way out we took notes in the car of the patches that were picture worthy and then on the way back we would stop at the best voted patch. So decided on the best blue bonnets and headed towards them and as we were getting off the highway to turn around we found this plentiful patch underneath the overpass! They were beautifully blue and untouched ! (when people take pics then tend to squish the blue bonnets and don’t look so good for pictures after that)
So we pulled over and got out the gear to take these great photos.
Rae loved the flowers and couldn’t help but touch them and even try to put them in her mouth…
It was special day for the three of us! Thanks Matt for taking fabulous photos! YOU ROCK
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