I totally forgot to post my Full Blood Moon photo last week, so I am doing it now. The internet is forever right?
A morning sunrise shot in the neighborhood.
One afternoon I noticed low thin clouds late in the day so I went home and launched the drone from the backyard and I’m pretty happy with this.
I got a ton of skywatch photos on our vacation to Orange Beach, Alabama, on the Gulf of Mexico back in August so I’m still posting these.
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From our vacation to the Gulf Coast of Alabama earlier this year. This is an inland scene in a bay near Orange Beach. We had a great time and I took lots of photos.
This book themed sculpture is outside one of our local Tulsa libraries. I love all things books.
And an action cam photo from one of my bike rides here in town. I love this old natural gas powered electric generating station. The sign on top is neon and looks great from the other side of the Arkansas River. The camera mounts on my handlebars and takes a photo every three seconds. I don’t keep all of them. Typically I have about 1500 photos of which ten to twenty are ones I want to keep. I can do the winnowing quickly, typically in about ten to 15 minutes.
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From our vacation last month. A distant rain shower moving across the Gulf of Mexico.
And in the neighborhood here in Tulsa a colorful sunset.
And not photo, not my copyright, although somebody holds it. A jigsaw puzzle I finished earlier this week. The sky was a bugger on this one. I’m working on a sea turtle puzzle now. It’s really hard.
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This is a park just off downtown Tulsa. It used to be known as Centennial Park but is now known as Veterans Park. It’s a very nice retreat. Lots of landscaping and it has a trail that goes around and a big pond and some other water features.
Back when I worked this was part of one of my downtown running routes.
The building in the background is now home to Tulsa City Parks. I just happened to have a meeting over there and so I got there intentionally early so I would have time for a brief walk around the pond.
So whatever they call it, it’s a nice park.
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The thing about a beach vacation is the beach and the water. Here is a scene from our condo balcony on the fifth floor with the gentle morning waves of the Gulf of Mexico rolling up on the beach. So we’d watch the Gulf from our condo with our morning coffee, breakfast, and newspapers. Then later we’d go hang out on the beach and then we would do a walk on the beach. Then we would go out and about town and return to beach in the late afternoon and then when it got dark we were back out on the balcony watching the Gulf some more. It was heaven.
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Our beach vacation is ending soon. We’ve walked miles on the beach, spent hours on the beach. Ate a lot of really good food, read books, stayed up late on our balcony and really had a good low key time. Back to reality soon.
We are having our family vacation in Alabama’s Gulf Coast. We love the beach and the Gulf of Mexico. This is a shot on Wolf Bay at Orange Beach. So I am on “minimal blogging mode.” I’m taking lots of photos to generate “content” as the youngsters say. The Skywatch Friday pages are already made and will come up as normal this week and next.
On Sunday, July 20 a couple weeks ago I took off on a bike ride on the Tulsa RiverParks. It was hot and I didn’t start until midmorning for various reasons so things got a little warm.
Sunday is a big day for Tulsans to get outside and ride their bikes, run, walk, whatever on the RiverParks. The traffic is mainly on the east bank so I started out on the east bank and went up and down the west bank just to get away from people.
Still, it was pretty busy but not overly so.
I was passed by almost everybody except…
…for people standing.
I always love going by PSO’s old Tulsa Power Station electric generating station. That sign looks really nice at night.
I got to my predetermined turnaround point and rested a bit and drank some water and then reversed course. I always check the weather apps to see which way the wind is blowing. I don’t mind riding into the wind on the outbound leg, that way I have the wind at my back going back to my car.
I was one hot, thirsty, old bike rider at the end! 14 miles all told.
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The other day Heather and I went to Joe’s Farm in Bixby to get a few things. The sign above is from previous years. This year the farm didn’t grow any produce, they planted a cover crop to replenish the soil. They still had blackberries and flowers as well as produce from other farms to sell. Heather loves blackberries and asked if the blackberries were still available. The lady there said they are pretty much all gone but if we wanted to we could see if we could find some for and gave us a container to put them in. So off we went.
We passed the fruit trees.
And before you get to the big tree you hang a right and…
And there are the blackberry bushes. I had never picked blackberries so…
I asked Heather, are these blackberries and she said yes but they are not ripe. The ripe ones are very dark. Okay, I get it. And the blackberries were pretty much all picked over but we went up and down several rows and gathered enough to fill the container. It was fun, kind of like geocaching, except for berries.
And then on the way back we stopped and looked at the flowers. They sell cut yourself flowers. Photos are free! And yes I used a filter on the photo above (and below). Flower photos demand impressionistic filters is what I think.
I forgot to take a photo of the blackberries we picked. Heather made a blackberry crisp out of them and that was pretty tasty.
I am linking with My Corner of the World and Skywatch Friday.
Earlier this month I was at the Y taking a yoga class. When I went in, the weather was sunny. When I got out, the ground was soaked and the skies were full of clouds that had lots of rain still in them.
Looking South
Looking East
Looking West
We had had torrential rain. I drove home, about four miles and it was dry as a bone.
We had a Full Buck Moon on July 10. Clear skies so I was able to get a halfway decent image of it.
I started working Ipad jigsaws puzzles again. I have a very old Ipad and the app wouldn’t work because I needed to upload and install a new Operating System and it wasn’t working. Drove me crazy!! So I was googling like crazy and then I got on Microsoft’s Copilot AI and asked it how do I upgrade and it said just load itunes on your laptop and then plug in your ipad to the laptop and it will upgrade all by it’s lonesome. I did it and it worked!!
This AI deal is a little scary. I asked if it would take one of my photos and make a postcard out of it and it said sure, upload a photo, and tell Copilot what text I want on the card, what style a card and it would be happy to do it. So I haven’t done it yet. Maybe I’ll have one next week.
I hope that you are all okay!! Word is that ICE is supposed to hit Oklahoma hard starting today. So pray for all us Oklahomans.