Big Sky... Little Town

Lord how I miss home. The beautiful, infinite sky of Texas. The brightness of the stars that seem to go on forever and ever. Across this same expanse I have witnessed some of the most breath taking arrays of lightning slowly crackling in one area while just across the way they w were striking down towards the ground as if the soul source of it's existence lies within the soil of the earth. You may say, "I have experienced these events or similar in my life as well, so what's so special about the sky in Texas?" I am certainly not attempting to minimize your memories, but the sky in the Lone Star State is, well as the old adage goes, ' Bigger in Texas. ' Northeast Texas, particularly Paris in Lamar county, where if you look out into the great expanse of sky above and earth below you will not see an end. The lands being flat makes for a cinematic experience that I can only equate to the viewing of a production seen on an IMAX screen while sitting in the middle row of the theater. It is something to see. In Paris, we have a claim to fame as well. The replica of the Eiffel tower spotlighted in my post can be found in this rural town. The size has been scaled down quite a bit, but if you'll notice in the picture, you will see the red Cowboy hat placed prominently on the top of this tower. That is more than just a hat. To me, it is a sign of pride, a stamp of approval if you will, a realization to the locals that no matter how far out you are if you take a look across that giant expanse of Sky and across the flat lay of the land you can see a red Cowboy Hat on top of a tower that states with pride, "No matter how hard times get, no matter where we end up in this life, or what state we currently reside, when the dust from the fields settle and the tractors stop rolling, and the cows are bedded down for the night, there is one solid that remains. That is when we see our tower, you know the one with the red Cowboy hat on top, we know God gave us that large sky in Texas to lead the locals back home. It doesn't matter how small you're town is when the sky is never ending.