November 6th: We drove to Coalinga for groceries … and I captured memory pictures of our way back home 📸😉
The sky was gray with heavy storm clouds, but there were shafts of sunlight poking through them that had me smiling as I pointed to them & recounted the story of Jacob's Ladder, to my husband:
Shafts of sunlight thru clouds reminds me of the Jacob's Ladder message.
As we came into Avenal, green was showing in the fields, and on the distant mountainous hills; the skimpy rainfall had worked wonders on the landscape 👍
GREEN! The brief rainfall has livened up the landscape; Avenal-CA
I like the little towns of Coalinga, & Avenal; so Holland makes it a point to get me to Avenal a couple time a month 👩❤️💋👨🕊️ - we're in Coalinga just about every day, doing one thing or another … basically just dinking around.
Driving through downtown Avenal (which takes about 10 minutes to cover every corner), we explored a new road out of town; and stopped to look out over a vast oil field:
Another new road adventure, looping around to the freeway.
Blackfoot, "Highway Song":
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9sPqs8H2I)
An old, very tall, oil derrick; Avenal-CA
Holland explaining to me all the mechanisms & how they worked.
Thingee with wheels is a BOP = Blow Out Preventer; to shut off well. Other is a Separator.
The Hydril oil fields have oil lines running everywhere.
The term "Hydril oil fields" in Avenal, CA, refers to the oil fields around the area, including the Kettleman Hills oil fields located northeast of Avenal, which are near a road named Hydril Road. This area is a significant oil-producing region, with a long history of oil deposits dating back to when geologists suspected they were there, and still active in the present day. The region is known for its large, high-elevation hills that have been extensively developed for oil extraction.
Kettleman North Dome Oil Field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettleman_North_Dome_Oil_Field
It was a fun day.
It was a good day.
It was an informative day.
I'm glad Holland took that side road.
And when we got back home, I unboxed my early BD gift, and set it up for Christmas bloom 😁
An early BD Gift to myself, came home with us from our Coalinga shopping.
**PROMISED: Coalinga-CA: (https://roadgypsiesvalandholland.blogspot.com/2025/11/promised-coalinga-ca.html)
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