MIND MAP: ALL ACROSS TEXAS

If you’ve ever met a creative, you know that – for better or worse – our minds tend to wander. In the case of this jacket, it was definitely for the better, as we let our little mind wander ‘All Across Texas’!

The back of this beautiful blue jacket is intricately embroidered with all sorts of iconic imagery associated with Texas. Take a little mental road trip with us as we meander through a map of all the signature symbols from the Lone Star State.

Let’s start in the center, shall we? The cattle drive. Well, that’s just a few boot scoots from our front door in Fort Worth, of course! (And while we’re nodding to Cowtown, you know we had to sneak a little horned frog in there for Jack.)

The bluebonnets, naturally, are that whole sprawling span of Central Texas where everyone stops for their Instagram opps in the fields of flowers.

Then, we follow the armadillo westward a la the Gary P. Nunn anthem. You know, “I wanna go home with the armadillo // good country music from Amarillo, and Abilene”! (Fun Fact: Mitchell listens to that song on the plane back to Texas when he’s been out of state too long. True story. Once, when he was actually on the way home from London!)

And wait, speaking of Amarillo, let’s solve something – when you hear the phrase “the yellow rose of Texas”, do you think Amarillo or San Antonio? We’re going to take a little Facebook poll in the Double D Addiction group, because we had a fun little banter about it. Amarillo means yellow in Spanish, so there’s a strong case for that. However, the legend and the lore is that Emily West Morgan is the Texas heroine associated with the song and the Battle of San Jacinto, and the Emily Morgan Hotel stands proudly in San Antonio, so you could certainly make an argument for that. We can’t wait to see where y’all weigh in.

Anywho, while we were mind-wandering over in the western half of the state, we went ahead and popped in a windmill, which could rightfully represent just about anywhere along I-27.

And last but not certainly not least, we loop back South to Yoakum because to us, the horseshoe is home.

P.S. Double D is about to have a new place to hang their horseshoe in Texas. Any guesses where we’re going next?!