Today I visited the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, on the West Texas A&M campus in Canyon, a few miles south of Amarillo. It was a pretty impressive collection of items from the region: windmills, oil rig equipment, paintings, fossils, furniture, automobiles, etc. On the way back home I saw a BNSF train loaded down with sand-colored military vehicles on flatbeds, perhaps destined for Iraq?

I'm sure many people here in Texas have paid more attention than usual to car tags this week: the new Texas plate shows the shuttle orbiter flying over a western landscape.