Cow Stuff Photo Section: Picacho Cow

Picacho Cow Plate

I picked this up at a Truck Stop with a gift shop and Dairy Queen on I-10 outside of Picacho Peak State Park in Arizona (between Casa Grande and Tucson).
This really jumped out at me when I was looking through the gift shop.
It reminds me of what the Southeast Valley of Arizona (Chandler and Gilbert) looked like when I moved to Arizona in 1993. It is very unfortunate that so much farm land has been lost in the last 10+ years to record growth and building all over the Phoenix Metro Area. Even dairy's and feedlots are becoming far and few between as they sell out to or forced out my new development. One thing I can't understand about people out here is how they can complain about the odors of these dairy's and feedlots when they chose to have their house built within a few hundred yards of these. It is not like they appeared over night, the cows (along with their aromas) were there when they went to have their houses built.
The base has sparkles suspend in fluid within the glass orb (sort like the old snow globes).