west texas tarantulas

[threeplusfire]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/garden/16location.html?ref=garden

He built the house last year, on the incline of a mesa on his 3,000-acre spread in Brewster County, where shale bluffs and sandy valleys are dotted with sagebrush and spiky yucca, and giant tarantulas languidly cross the heat-radiating roads.

Yes, there are giant tarantulas in West Texas. Yes, they cross roads. What's really crazy is when they migrate en masse and the ground is covered in a horde of giant tarantulas on the movie.

That said, the house in this article is incredible. I would love to have a vacation there. Check out the slide show, especially for the two pictures that show the incredible sky.

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[ckocher.livejournal.com]

That's where I grew up (well, closer to Midland but the terrain is the same). We used to go on tarantula roundups when they did the road crossing, and had to always check around the home in case they decided to nest en masse there.

And yeah - the sky is incredible. I miss watching the thunderstorms roll in across the mesa...