Driving across western Texas

After we left New Mexico and entered Texas, there were beautiful huge crop fields. The soil was very red - maybe high iron content?

Sorry for the reflection -- much of the land had irrigation equipment, though it appears that at this time of year, everything was very green, even if it wasn't irrigated.

We looked up information about the topology of the lands we were driving through - the Llano Estacado is the name of high plains straddling NM and TX. The Caprock Escarpment is the geographic transition to rolling terrain.

It was amazing as we drove east how the flat plains suddenly changed into a ridge and undulating lands - I found this picture on the web that shows the topology - we were driving east across Texas south of Lubbock.



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