An airport and an oil well

Flying into Oklahoma City on Friday I was reminded of the fact that they have oil wells on / adjacent to the Will Rogers World Airport.  When I first visited Oklahoma City two years ago this totally threw me for a loop.  As a Chicago native who grew up under the landing patterns of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, I'm fairly well versed in the uniqueness that can be an airport.  For example did you know that O'Hare's three letter code is ORD because it was built on a former orchard?  Did you also know that there is (for the time being at least) a cemetery on the official grounds of O'Hare?

Needless to say I should be used to out of the ordinary things on / next to the grounds of an airport.  That being said, I can't say that I'm all too used to seeing oil wells in general so that one did keep me on my toes a bit.

In talking to my shuttle driver a couple years ago, he mentioned that he often gets comments from out-of-towners about these and sometimes he even gets asked to pull over so tourists can get their pictures taken with the oil wells in the back-ground.  While I didn't go that far either that time or this one, I did get a picture from the shuttle this evening as we returned to the airport as this is something that still makes me smile.

Yea I am "that" city girl who is intrigued by an oil well next to the airport!