Left for Tusla, Oklahoma on Palm Sunday...with plans to visit family near the Texas/Oklahoma border on the way to Amarillo, Texas. The drive from St. Louis to Oklahoma was beautiful...limestone borderd the highway with trees blooming into spring. We saw lots of Red Bud trees (with their purple flowers) and the vistas were spectacular. Kind of got a hint of what the Ozarks may have in store...if we ever do a trip! Stayed overnight in Tulsa and headed out early the next day to see Mimi (Elaine, my mother); Grandpa (the girls' great grandfather); and Uncle Paul Preston at the "farm" in Whitesboro, Texas. We were looking forward to a little afternoon visit -- and then pressing on to our destination...Amarillo, Texas. Uncle Paul's farm is a wild and wooly place. On most visits you
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