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THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 2002
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SWAINSON'S HAWK
Going down the
road feeling bad
A Guest Column by Sett Davidson
THIS IS A BAD PART of the country in which to hurry. On
Sunday I hurried off to Keystone, Colorado in order to see Doug
Ricketts' art exhibit, which I thought was running through Mon-
day afternoon. I hurried out the door, hurriedly tanked up the
pickup, and hurried off towards the Rockies. In Pueblo it oc-
curred to me that I should call ahead to Keystone and find out ex-
actly where the exhibit was being held. Nothing like planning
ahead at the last minute.
"Art exhibit?" the receptionist asked. "Right here at the
lodge."
"What time does it begin tomorrow?''
"Tomorrow? It finishes today at five."
I glanced at the clock. 4:15, and still a couple hundred miles
shy of the mark. When you miss an appointment in Austin, or
make a wrong turn, it costs you a few minutes. My ill-fated voy-
age came out to a round-trip jaunt of about seven hundred miles.
On the way to my mis-destination, intent mainly on reaching
the Rockies, I hadn't noticed much of interest in between here
and there, with the exception of about forty-seven raindrops
which fell in Las Animas. Given the scorched, droughted-out
deathscape of southern Colorado, those drops must have been
endlessly fascinating to the folks who live there, though they
hardly moistened the bug crud on my windshield.
On the way back, foot somewhat lighter and the sense of ur-
gency dissipated by a lard-loaded Tex-Mex platillo of cheese
cooked with cheese and seasoned by extra grease and cheese, I
had plenty of time to look. Between Pueblo and Dumas it's easy
to think that the area is worthless for sightseeing, particularly
when ravaged by so many rainless days. Nonetheless, I came
across a handful of playas, full of water and popping with birds.
Swainson's Hawks and the occasional Red-tailed Hawk perched
atop utility poles, a pretty rock formation graced the roadside
just over the Oklahoma line, numerous: scenic farmhouses sat on
the prairie, and outside Boise City I was treated to a triple-wow
sunset.
Before sleep overtook me just this side of Borger, I slid into
the pullout for a historical marker, killed the engine and reclined
the seat. Just before I nodded off, I glanced out the window. The
skies rippled with starlight. A coyote barked. The wind blew, and
none too gently. My dog Shake wheezed and contentedly
scratched a few fleas off onto my leg. "Here I am, I thought,
"Thirty-eight years old, dusting fleas off my lap, and sleeping on
the side of the road in a pickup with a dog whose breath smells
like a hog farm. Ain't life great?"
And you know what? It is.
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 2002, newspaper, August 8, 2002; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth220541/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.