A sunset drone shot looking a little south of northwest from Tulsa.
Another shot on another day from the same location looking more north of northwest.
A country road skywatch shot in southeastern Oklahoma.
A neighborhood shot looking west from our home in Tulsa.
A late afternoon shot from a drone 40 meters over our backyard looking towards the north. One can see rain falling up in the area.
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Earlier this spring the winds were high here in Tulsa. I couldn’t fly very far without the drone warning me to bring it down immediately. So this is a barely rooftop shot of some clouds to the west moving in.
I’m happier when I can get to about 50 meters because I can get better photos.
Back in April there was a roofing crew replacing a roof nearby. They were humping it, rain was coming.
The neighborhood we live has five different communities. We live in the only non-gated community. The wealthiest neighborhood has a swan pond and we can go look at from the other side of a iron fence. Reminds me of a Dickens novel. Every once in a while we go looking at the swan pond through the fence.
And this is looking west down the street toward a sunset.
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I went on a walk to Tulsa’s Gathering Place and took this photo of the Williams Crossing Bridge across the Arkansas River on an overcast day.
The Gathering Place has its own swimming beach on a pond inside the park. Cool and overcast meant not many people sunbathing.
I was at Chandler Park a few days later and took this photo of downtown Tulsa and the Arkansas River and a big blue sky with a thin layer of clouds.
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I fired up the drone a few days ago and launched it over my backyard up to about 40 meters and pointed west and got this. Not much color but lots of drama. I’ll take it.
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I launched the drone again a few days ago. We had some blustery weather that caused the drone controller to start squawking at me at only 15 meters so I just took one photo and brought the drone down to calm down.
I took this drone photo with me at about 1.7 meters. Should I get a flight suit?
I captured this over the fence sunset on a dog walk in the green belt near our house.
We went to ONEOK Field to check out the Tulsa Drillers. An AA Farm Team for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was a pleasant evening.
Another skywatch shot at the stadium.
On another day, another dog walk in the green belt, another photo.
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I went on a bike ride during a sunny, cool morning this week. It was glorious. I stopped here at the Arkansas River as it goes through Tulsa. That bridge going across the river is Williams Crossing, named for the corporation that donated about one gazillion dollars to build it. I saw some people gliding, almost flying across the bridge.
This is them. They stopped at the western end. Two roller skaters and a scooter. No wonder they were so smooth looking going across.
This past week, I broke out the old drone and launched it from the backyard to get some skywatch shots.
Here you can see a front coming through.
I put this photo through a filter to get some color.
One day storm clouds were building up. I launched the drone but it started barking at me at about 15 meters warning of high winds. So this is a low level shot of the clouds. You can see that the drone is just a little above roof peak level and below the power lines. When the drone barks I listen to it. I don’t need it flying away in the wind. It almost got away from it once and I went through the recall procedure and it came back.
Here’s a street level photo looking east.
Another looking west.
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A sunset from my front yard
A Full Flower Moon from my backyard
And some clouds at a nearby YMCA
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Some stormy skies one early evening in the neighborhood.
The morning after a stormy sky in the neighborhood. More threatening skies and a new roof going up.
On a dogwalk at our neighborhood greenbelt. A very sunny and bright afternoon. I love new leaves in the spring. Talk about fresh and green.
On Earth Day I was manning a booth in downtown Tulsa representing the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition. This is a view of the food trucks. It was also food truck Wednesday. I ended up getting some very spicy and flavorful Thai food.
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Recently I went to the Tulsa suburb of Sapulpa to check out the Rock Creek Bridge. A must stop for Route 66 fans especially since this year is the 100th year of Route 66’s existence. The bridge is open to foot traffic only.
From there I ventured back into Sapulpa and found this Umbrella Alley. I love all the colors. The day I was there the wind was blowing pretty hard through the alley and the umbrellas were dancing. As they say in the musical “Oklahoma”
**“Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet,
When the wind comes right behind the rain.”**
If you love wind. Move to Oklahoma, we have lots for everybody.
I also found this brand new place, The Waypoint Lounge! I was sure it was a bar for geocachers. But alas, it is an event space with lots of amenities. Check the link. It is hard to make money off of geocachers. They really like free stuff.
Back home, a view down the road in my neighborhood.
And I finished a jigsaw puzzle. I google lensed it and it is Hallstatt, Austria. Sure is pretty place is what I think.
And from our outer space. This is from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope augmented with data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. It shows “Nebula NGC 6357 that contains Pismis 24, a young cluster of stars about 5,500 light-years from Earth.”
To me this is breathtaking.
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I never get tired of the skies in western Oklahoma. Talk about big skies, they have them. Along with tornadoes, hail, and storms. But they are tough people, they just shrug their shoulders and go on.