a roadside meadow

This is a view facing away from yesterday's stadium. Although it is quite green and pretty, it is also characteristic Texas countryside with the now-yellowing grass and the hardy trees that look capable of surviving being blasted by all sorts of extreme weather. Native Texas plants have to survive both months of dry hundred-degree-farenheit summer and winter days when it goes below freezing, so toughness is what counts. Some say that rule applies to the humans here, too...  ¶ posted by alice at 9:50 AM