chain chain chain

 

Did you realize that Aretha Franklin sang "chain" 19 times in the refrain of "Chain of Fool"?  That song went through my head when I shot this and then then I looked up the lyrics!  Caption and trivia in one post!

 

Lubock County Museum

Shallowater, Texas

ride'em cowboy

 

 

Many firefighters have a "second job."  This cowboy had firefighting as his second job.  Now retired, he runs cattle and rides in parades (and his mother was my third grade teacher).  There was a reason the Shallowater Harvest Festival put the horses and sheriff's posse at the end of the parade.  Wouldn't want to mistake horse patties for peanut patties!

 

Shallowater, Texas

10.17.2015

small town parade

 

What other kind of float would you expect the 4-H Club to have besides a John Deere tractor with a bale of hale pulling a trailer?  Shallowater's Harvest Festival featured a parade, barbecue, street carnival and harvest princess contest.  After the police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, vintage cars and assorted vehicles with all the candy throwing, the horse posse was last.  Wonder why?

 

Shallowater, Texas

alien landscape

 

No, it's not a scene from Mars -- just a night shot of the corn maze north of town with the city lights of Lubbock on the horizon.  Hurry -- you only have a short time left to get lost in the corn patch, take a hay ride and see the pumpkins.

 

At'l Do Farms Corn MAiZE

6323 FM 1294

Shallowater, Texas 79415