Photographer blind shadows at Oxley Nature Center
Boardwalk Shadows also at Oxley Nature Center.
A tree with premature balding Manion Park in Tulsa. You can see the photographer’s selfie at the bottom. He had premature balding starting about 55 years ago! He tells everyone that he doesn’t waste his hormones growing hair.
A sheep grazes peacefully at the Gardens at Philbrook oblivious to their long shadow.
A sunny/shady place to rest on my bike ride on Tulsa’s RiverParks Trails. The view includes autumn color, the Arkansas River and Turkey Mountain on the other side of the river.
Complex shadows at Tulsa’s Tandy YMCA
I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday
I went on a short hike on Turkey Mountain on Friday. I love this bridge across the top of a dam.
This is another trail elsewhere on Turkey Mountain going across the top of dam.
Earlier in the week I went on a short walk at Hunter Park. I love post and beam fences. Among other things, they make great shadows.
I had a lot of excitement yesterday at the No Kings Rally here in Tulsa. Time to settle the nervous system down and relax.
I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday. Great gang to chill with.
A combination early morning fence and shadow selfie using the hipstamatic app on my iphone.
A Moon Gate on a hiking trail.
Our Pomeranian Kodi looking for a sunny spot on the floor to take a nap.
Linking with Shadow Shot Sunday
Recently I went on a walk around Tulsa’s Lafortune Park. The walking trail winds around the park which contains a lot of things. An 18 hole golf course and a par 3 course as well, playgrounds, a pony league and little league ballparks, fishing ponds, a huge tennis complex, a high school, a public swimming pool, a public library and more!! The trail is paved and 3 miles long and is very popular. On warm days I like it’s shady spots.
The clubhouse for the golfcourse has two walls made out of concrete blocks. I don’t know how old they are but they look like the blocks that were common for screen walls back in the 50’s and 60’s.
Don’t see too much of them any longer. I love them. It makes for a screening wall with a lot of visual interest, including geometric shadows.
I’ll finish with these shadows. A tree in our backyard late in the day. I loved the pattern of sunlight and shadows on the tree trunk and limbs.
We finally took our new dog, Sadie, the terrier mix, to a dog park. It had been rainy and cold and we wanted to get our vet to clear Sadie so off we went on one sunny afternoon. Above is my wife Heather with Sadie and Kodi, our pomeranian, in tow.
Sadie loved it. She’s a social butterfly with both dogs and people. She was running here and there making friends with everyone. She was right at home. We kept asking her if she was looking for a new home.
Kodi has always like the park but is much more reserved. This time, our poor little dog, got run over by another dog and that was it for him. We were told when we got him that he is a little dog with BIG FEELINGS, and that is true.
Sadie is making friends with Lizzie the cat. Lizzie insists on boundaries though so even though they may be together eventually we hear a hiss and a paw whacking Sadie on the head when she forgets the boundaries.
Kodi being cute one evening. He looks like a little bear cub.
At Brookwood Pond in Tulsa, here is a Mother’s Day shot. Geese and goslings.
Also at Brookwood Pond, I’m sneaking up on Great Blue Heron. All I had for a camera was my phone.
And at Hunter Park in Tulsa, another phone shot of a Great Blue Heron.
In our backyard an Eastern Bluebird visited our camera feeder.
I attended an event at Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area and afterward went on a short hike. I was going along and I could hear all these birds up in the trees, but could I see them? No!! I then I got to thinking maybe they are not up in the trees, maybe they are down below so that is where I started looking and I started seeing all sorts of little birds close to the ground. I didn’t really have a good lens for taking photos so these are highly cropped and thus a little grainy. Above is a Carolina Wren.
And this is a Tufted Titmouse I think.
I guess that I am not as smart as I thought I was. I have walked miles in the woods over the years listening to the birds up in the trees and that is not where they were. Anyway, I finally learned something.
And Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers.. None of us would be here if were not for our Mothers. This Heather with our son Logan and Kodi back when he was little.
And here is my favorite photo of my mother. She loved fishing and she was good at it. She had mobility issues so she didn’t move around very much but she could catch the fish. This was her favorite spot on Birch Creek in southeast Idaho.
I’m linking with Saturday’s Critters
We had a Northern Flicker visit for a little bit. A very striking bird.
Our new little terrier, Sadie, continues to win our hearts and make herself right at home.
And Lizzy the cat doesn’t want us to forget her. We are not!!
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The northwst corner of our backyard is looking a little dismal right now at the tail end of winter but I love teh shadow of our north/south fence projected on our east/west fence. And we got a bonus tree shadow from our neighbor and a bird feeder shadow. Just don’t look at the cast about yard furniture, random utility boxes, leaves and other debris.
Me and our cat Lizzy have always been good friends. With my knee surgery now we are really good friends. Part of my recovery has been putting my leg in a knee bending session every day for two two hour sessions every day. So I do that while laying on our bed. Lizzie joins me for at every session for at least an hour or two.
She naps mainly, I also nap, and read and post photos on social media. Believe it or not, it goes by pretty quickly.
She just kind of lays there. Every once in a while she gets up and sniffs my leg like she is checking on progress.
I love the company
I spend a lot of other time in the living room sitting up with an ice machine on my leg. I surf the net, read the news. Lizzie likes getting in my lap then. Nothing like a purry cat sitting on your sore leg.
She spends a little time, then leaves, and comes back after a while.
I get up really early these days. My meds kind of run out so I move out into the living room and reload on the drugs and ice. The other day Lizzie showed up and wouldn’t move out of my lap so no reading the paper for about an hour and half. So I’d pet her and she’d purr, and like I said before. Nothing like a purring cat for healing.
And here is the latest photo. I know its just the dressing. The stitches are looking good, very nice and tight. My wife and I are not much into hospital photos. I know other people like them, not me, not of me, nor of other people.
The unexpected thing was my ankle. It’s like a bad sprain. Both leg and ankle are healing up fairly well. I wish it were faster. In the meantime, I am glad Lizzy is around. What a sweet companion to have during recovery.
During a recent hike on the YMCA owned portion of Turkey Mountain I noticed that they had new trail signs. (I also noticed that I had grown taller and skinnier, I should hike more often in the late afternoon!) So I said to myself, hmm and looked on the other side of the sign.
It looks like Boy Scout Troop 20 had something to do with sign. Way to go guys (and gals as the BSA takes girls now.)
A very Merry Turkey Mountain Trail Christmas to all who celebrate the holiday.