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Lightnin McDuff to fashion the two trunkless legs in mock tribute to Ozymandias, the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II, who thought the statue would eternally preserve his power. Percy did write the poem that adorns the iron tablet at the site, but it wasn t about this pair of legs. Like Cadillac Ranch off I-40 east of Amarillo, visitors are welcome to add their own spray-painted inscriptions to the legs. Though this art is not as well-known or as popular as the 10 Cadillacs nose-down in a field, it s just as quirky. The Giant Legs of Amarillo are at the southeast corner of I-27 and Sundown Lane south of town. Every few months the legs get a new coat of paint, which ranges from a pair of socks to graffiti. Parking is on the rutted side of the road. While the site is open to visitors, those without closed-toe shoes will discover the pain of Texas burrs that seem to be the field s primary crop. ....
Rockport, has been hammered and battered by Mother Nature over the centuries, and still it spreads its gnarly limbs over the coastal prairie. Most days, a steady stream of visitors stop at the small parking lot at the Big Tree. They don t stay long. It only takes a few minutes to walk around the tree s massive 90-foot canopy and pay your respects to the oldest living thing in Texas. No one knows for sure the age of the 45-foot-tall live oak ( Quercus virginiana). Estimates put the 35-foot circumference of the trunk at beginning between 500 and 3,000 years ago, with the best guess to be around 2,000 years. That would put 1969 s state champion coastal live oak at more than 500 years old when Cabeza de Vaca visited in 1528. ....
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