{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"Texas Ranging 02. Midland to Marfa","html":"Well I left the beef fat and downstream petro behind, and took a plane to Midland TX. The earth looks scraped clean - and it kind of is, at least in patches (scraped and then bored down down through strata of hard and soft, old and older. Lots of oil pump jacks - the term I like best for them is Thirsty Bird... but more on that soon.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"401\" caption=\"Hello Oil! Derrick at work.\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5340554667\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5166\/5340554667_223dc66d0b.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Oil! Derrick at work.\" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"402\" caption=\"Thirsty Bird pads\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5340552065\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5242\/5340552065_5656061c06.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"402\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibleynaturecenter.org\/essays\/moseying\/exploringnature\/040825_oilwellpad.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sibley Nature Center<\/a> in Midland, whose director Burr Williams is my new naturalist hero,\u00a0 has a good essay on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibleynaturecenter.org\/essays\/moseying\/exploringnature\/040825_oilwellpad.html\" target=\"_blank\">ecology of oil pads<\/a>...\r\n\r\n+++++++++++\r\n\r\nThen I hopped in a rental that looks like a cop car (black 4 door, maybe the FBI will forgive me now) and drove to Marfa. Nice clouds, look scribbled and placed.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" caption=\"-\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5340564627\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5288\/5340564627_c9f609985b.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"401\" caption=\"-\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5340566673\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5082\/5340566673_b0a2145ecd.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"402\" caption=\"-\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5341146926\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5049\/5341146926_f38ea9698c.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"402\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"401\" caption=\"-\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5340541099\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/#\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5167\/5340541099_8566750f5c.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"401\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" caption=\"-\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/5341140954\/in\/set-72157625661895461\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5002\/5341140954_9c62545eb9.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"401\" caption=\"Cop Car.\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5201\/5343356722_40066d3c8c.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5201\/5343356722_40066d3c8c.jpg\" alt=\"Cop Car.\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\nLots more pictures on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22155573@N00\/sets\/72157625661895461\/with\/5341201938\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr<\/a>.","type":"rich"}