I miss the open vistas of western Texas, where I was outside for much of the past six days looking at fossil sites. It’s not the same back here in Missouri. You can’t allow your eyes to stretch out for 10 miles in every direction, and there aren’t many spots where you can look way down and way up at mountain tops from the same spot. I took more than a few handheld HDR series in Texas and crunched them on a program called Photomatix over the past couple of days. They are a pretty good reminder of the types of things I was seeing in the areas in and near Big Bend National Park.