I love the vast openness of North and West Texas. I have always loved seeing forever when I look out across the landscape. In this part of TN, with all the woodlands, you'll be doing well to see more than a couple hundred yards.

When I spent my first long stretch of time in TX and then came back here, I drove all night to get home. I had to stop at a rest area near Jackson TN to take a short nap. When I woke up and proceeded toward home the sun was just coming up. I was going down I-40 which is lined by tall trees. I felt, after living in the openness of TX, like I was in a tunnel. I felt claustrophobic. Took me a little while to rid myself of that feeling as I got used to be surrounded by trees which severely limited my view.

On my last trip out to TX I was shocked by the ugliness of the wind farms. Places where I used to top a hill and marvel at the wide open expanse of nothingness was corrupted by hundreds of giant wind mills. How ugly!

That property belongs to someone and if they want to plant windmills every couple of hundred feet, that's their business but they are ugly and destructive to the local environment to which they occupy.

Thankfully, California locals are beginning to fight back against the destructive and ugly...not to mention stupid...renewable industries.

A rare agreement with the Californians...finally. ""California's largest county has banned the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land, bending to the will of residents who say they don’t want renewable energy projects industrializing their rural desert communities northeast of Los Angeles," the outlet reports."