Category Archives: ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday – W is for …

If you are back from a beach vaation then W has to be Water!

90540005

We swam in it. SuperPizzaBoy is part fish I think.

DSCN0566

We saw boats in it.

IMG_5588

We even saw a few people even walking on water.

IMG_5592

And then way far off we saw some ghostly sinister shapes on the water.

IMG_5581

There were pelicans trying to catch dinner.

IMG_5612

All sorts of foolishness was going on in the water. Not all of it can be explained. I mean I could explain it but you wouldn’t understand it. I took 616 photographs on our trip, 282 of them have a “water” tag.

ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday – “Q” is for ….

Q’s are really hard. I guess questions are Q’s but I don’t know how to take a picture of a question.

IMG_4914

I finally found a Q last month in San Antonio. On the northern reaches of the Rivewalk way beyond the fancy hotels and cheesy restaurants, art museums, and expensive condo’s and where only homeless people, runners, geocachers, very lost tourists (I find some, or they found me, should have seen the look on their face when I told them that they had a two mile walk to the Alamo) and the park police roam I found a Quonset hut. I finally found a Q! I hope that you like it. I worked hard for it.

The tourists I found were not impressed. I told them, “Well if you don’t want to walk all the way to the Alamo, there is Quonset hut around the bend.”

#geocaching #riverwalk #san_antonio #texas

“Or you can go geocaching with me.”  They walked away acting like I was the strange one. At least I knew where I was, and everything there was to do. 

Wikipedia says that Quonset Huts were developed by the Navy during World War II for use as cheap, easily assembled buildings. The military built about 150,000 or so during the war and sold many of them to the public. They were first fabricated at Quonset Point in Rhode Island.

ABC Wednesday

Enhanced by Zemanta

ABC Wednesday – O is for…

Holly Refining Tanks

Oil Tanks – from my office window.

We have lots of them in Tulsa, the former Oil Capital of the World. The United States burns about 19 million barrels of oil per day compared to about 14 million barrels per day for all the countries of the European Union put together. That takes lots of refineries and lots of tanks and lots of oil wells, and lots of pipelines. We may complain about the price of oil, but we want it and lots of it and we’ll want more next year than what we are using this year.

ABC Wednesday

Statistics from the CIA – The World Factbook

ABC Wednesday – N is for New Orleans

This week, “N” is for New Orleans for me. I was in the Bayou City for a few days almost a year ago.

IMG_0326

I just loved the sights and sounds of the city.

IMG_0327

The great variety of people and the classic scenes.

IMG_0300

New Orleans really is timeless.

IMG_0279

There is a surprise around every corner and usually a party.

IMG_0240

Have you ever been there?

ABC Wednesday

Thank you Mrs. Nesbitt and Roger

ABC Wednesday – L is for ..

L is for Log Cabin!!

IMG_4755

SuperPizzaBoy and I came on this one last Saturday at Stuart Park in Tulsa. The cabin is part of a “Pioneer Garden Display.”

IMG_4754

My favorite part of the cabin is the oxbow hanging on the side.

 Can you imagine living in such a thing? My feelings about the good old days are like what my late grandmother said, “You can have the good old days, they were terrible.”

ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday – K is for ….

1969 Karmann Ghia

Konvertible??? No, this week letter is K which stands for Karmann Ghia by Volkswagen. I have to tell you that as a youngster during the 1970’s muscle car era I sure did not understand why anybody would want one of these. I guess now that I’m old and dumb instead of young and dumb I can appreciate the styling and lines but I still don’t get paying a premium for a 60 horsepower engine. I just love the baby blue color of this car, the bright chrome bumper and the little turn signals.

ABC Wednesday