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Skywatch Friday – Perspective

Beautiful day in T-town #tulsa

You know I really like the city I live in and sometimes I think it is a pretty big deal (or at least a sizeable middling big deal compared to other cities.) But then I get an opportunity to go hang out in the country and get a different view of things.

Downtown Tulsa from Holmes Peak.jpg
(View of downtown Tulsa from Holmes Peak during a trail race last Saturday)

And you know it is an okay place to live but the big blue Oklahoma Sky is so much a bigger deal.

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Skywatch Friday – West Tulsa Sunset

Four #tree #sunset #sky #skyviewers

The other day I left downtown Tulsa after work and drove across the Arkansas River to do some geocaching and I caught this sunset with my Ipod. West Tulsa is on the wrong side of the river and the railroad  tracks. I was at a park tucked just north of a cement plant, next to some Section 8 apartments and in between two refineries.

West #tulsa #railroad #tracks

Yep, I felt pretty comfortable there. West Tulsa is what made Tulsa the Oil Capital of the World back in the day and it is still the “soul” of the city. Sure we have an opera and two world class museums and all sorts of other stuff. The money came from the oil wells, refineries, tank farms, power plants, railroad yards, trucking yards, and oilfield fabrication shops of west Tulsa: the wrong side of the river and the wrong side of the tracks and the most interesting part of town.

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