World class museums in Midland: The Museum of the Southwest and The Petroleum Museum

I realized that museums may be awesome places when I visited the Natural History Museum and the MET Museum in New York in 2013. This is especially true if they have great options to take photos. Thanks to some awesome people that virtually showed me the Museum of the Southwest, I decided to take a look in order to plan a field trip once COVID-19 allows it. I was able to get in for free, so I had the planetarium, the modern art gallery, and the Turner Mansion for myself. 

This is the Planetarium, along with the movie sphere (or however they call it):

These pictures show the modern art Gallery along with the Turner Mansion:

The last place on my mind was the Petroleum Museum. The nice thing about this place is that you can take pictures of everything a science teacher, a chemist, and amateur photographer could want: minerals, paintings, and other stuff:

I must say that I was disappointed about the lack of mask wearing, which is not the norm in regular art museums. Based on what I've seen in the big cities in Texas, art museums are much safer than a grocery store, as everyone was wearing masks, and very few people kept their nose uncovered.

Stress and relief?

These trees are stressed, and so am I. 

Will COVID allow for some relief?

I'll find out in the next two to three weeks.

These maples did not shine as bright as they have usually done in the past. Despite the stress, we can still find some time to shine. At least these maples in McKittrick Canyon did, the cottonwoods at Palo Duro did not:

Even the mesquites were turning brown instead of yellow. Many people have yet to show more empathy and wear their masks. I'm hopeful for better days to come and for this pandemic to be a part of history.