I Brake For Rodeo!
That's right! Here in Texas, cowboys have been traveling to the stock show far longer than commuters have been driving down our concrete highways!
My cousin from Houston was running errands last week when she was stopped at a traffic light and just had to snap this photo. Trail riders were heading into town for the big Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.
The event starts with a big barbeque cook-off the last weekend of February, then the rodeo begins on Monday and lasts for about three weeks.
Let's Rodeo!
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Melanie - now that's not a shot you'd see anywhere - except Texas. Very cool!! Wish she had taken more - could be fun Texas style blog pics for you!
Hi Melanie - I have to break for Canada Geese pretty often in my travels; occasionally turkeys; but not very often [never] the rodeo!
Anna: Kind of funny! You can just barely see the sky scrapers of Houston in the distance.
Chris: Now see, I never even have to so much as slow down for Canada Geese or Turkeys -- go figure!
How fun is that! I love that we are definitely not completely homogeneous; that is SO TEXAS!
Melanie,
I have not seen that before but I did have a run away horse charge at me while I was driving down Long Prairie Road or 2499 in Flower Mound a few years ago before they build the Shops of Highland Village!
Virginia: So true -- I love how are regions are all unique!
Patricia: Oh dear -- scarey! I don't see much more than a cow outside the fence here in McKinney, but once when I was driving through a town in northern Montana I saw a bear by the road standing up on its hind legs. I couldn't believe it!
Wow! I know we do things like this in our small town but I never imagined I'd see horses in the middle of a busy highway/street in the city!
Melanie, great shot, my daughter and her husband participate in the trail ride from Corpus Christi to San Antonio each year but this year it was canceled after several days due the danger from the ice on the roads and the chance a car could lose control and hurt some of the riders.
My husband lived in Austin for quite awhile before I met him...but I just asked and he said he had never seen a picture like that...it's very cool!
We are big horse country here, but we don't have big concrete highways. Always nice to see the horses walking down the road (hopefully with a rider).
Hello Melanie, this is soooo Texas! As a native Texan I love everything (well almost everything!) Texas. Good luck for a productive day in McKinney from a close neighborhood in Rockwall. Texas.
Nice pic...for some reason I don't think I would see this in Massachusetts. LOL
Dennis: Funny!!! It's actually rare here as well.
Barbara: Hi neighbor, thanks for stopping by!
Dawn: I imagine your area is gorgeous -- we seem to see more cows here than horses!
Cindy: Austin is a great town -- I'm sure he has lots of stories to share about his days there!
Suzanne: That sounds like a wonderful ride!
Brenda: It was funny to see it here -- every once in a while you'll see a rider next to the road, but never on the highway!!! This was a special occasion and I think there may have been an official escort. It looks like there's a police car behind the riders -- or maybe they were just being pulled over for a ticket!!!
Melanie, here we don't see horses on our on-ramps, but this time of year we begin to see families of ducks and duclings trying to cross the roads! Enjoy the rodeo!