Macro

This isn’t a true macro but the redbuds are blooming and so I’m using this.

Wheels

I have a cheap digital camera that I absolutely love. One of its features is that it has no shutter. When you press the button the sensor gets scanned so what you get is the Lartigue Effect on moving objects caused by the scan. That is why these wheels look cartoonish. A coworker of mine was driving and he passed literally about forty vehicles before I got this take. I love cheap cameras!!

Here is another example of the Lartigue effect of the same camera. Take a pic while weaving the camera down and you can make buildings shimmy.

Shiny

The Cox Convention Center here in Tulsa has shiny ceiling decorations.

Weather

Here in Oklahoma we really start watching the skies starting in April or so. 

Favorite Sport

I’m a big Dallas Cowboys fan. So here is me with a couple of fellow Cowboys fans. I confess that I have posted this picture before, more than once, and I’ll post it again, probably several times.

I also like to run. I’m a pretty slow runner. Well, that is a lie. I would have to speed up quite a bit to be slow. I like the longer races, but not too long, 10K, 15K, and half marathons are my speed. I run with my camera and stop and take pictures. These are the Lululemon ladies who take their signs to various races in Tulsa. I love the smarty alecky tone of the signs.

Also, it is birthday time for me!!!! Thank you loyal readers. You put up with a lot is what I think. I appreciate all of you!! C’mon over, have some cake. The cheerleaders and the Lululemon Ladies will be here also.

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What IS that?

This was a giveaway at a recent trade show. I don’t know have a clue who IPS is or what the PLH group is but I this giveaway looks more like something you would expect to find in a hospital or something. I think that it is supposed to be a collapsible water bottle. Would you drink something from this container? If your answer is yes, I am worried about you. My bottle went straight into the trash. (No I didn’t recycle, shame on me.)

Yum

At Lucky’s here in Tulsa, the burger’s are great but I don’t share the fries with truffle oil. So don’t embarrass yourself by asking if you can have one. Because the answer is no. Get your own, moocher!!

On the Road

Here the family is in Branson, Missouri last week on Spring Break. We had a great trip.

On the Shelf

Barnes and Noble is fine thank you but I’ll take a nice used book store run by people who love books like Gardener’s here in Tulsa.

Bad Habit

My previous boss got me hooked on Braum’s chocolate mix with Heath Bars. Yummm. I don’t share this either and yes it does hurt to ask.

Scavenger Hunt Sundays

Doorway

On the east side of downtown Tulsa there is a blue doorway. I don’t know who owns it or where it goes but lots of people show up to to take pictures of it or pose people around it. I love it.

Candid

Saturday night and Logan is performing with other teens at Tulsa’s Clark Theater. Lots of fun and candid shots on show night.

Open

Several years ago Tulsa converted their downtown mall back to streets with a traffic circle around a fountain. The fountain has taken dings from various drunk drivers. Lately the latest high tech drunk driver proof fountain, within the circle, at the square opened up. We locals are keeping our fingers crossed that it makes it through Saint Patrick’s Day. I’ll  keep you posted.

Look Up

The Arch in Saint Louis is something to behold.

Stuffed

Because of Oklahoma’s strange liquor laws we can’t get New Belgium Brewery products like Fat Tire beer. So I stuff my shopping cart when I am out of state.

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Unusual Crop

I found these Thunder Up things in a planter a few months ago. Is it the season for basketball. No Seattle whiney babies allowed!! Except for my friend Sylvia who used to live in Seattle.

Details

Tulsa has lots and lots of art deco buildings and art deco is all about details. I found this winged railroad wheel at the old train depot.

the Ground

Way out in western Oklahoma they are too busy drilling Granite Wash gas wells to waste time trying to grow greens for the golf courses. So they use oiled sand.
Blooper (or a shot where things didn’t go as planned)

I ran a race a while back. I think it must have been part of the bad style olympics.

Color

IKEA has lots of color. I understand that some people actually buy the merchandise they sell. I can’t imagine why.

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Looking Up

I’m cheating today cuz I am using two photographs for the “Looking Up” prompt. You have to look up to see these big cranes used to build high rises.

You gotta look a little lower to see what they are carrying.

Light

Lights from the power company power plant maybe?

Favorite Mobile Device

Mobile devices? Sure I have two Ipod Touches and an Ipod Nano. I have two Kindle Fires and a regular Kindle, a nice laptop, and a snazzy smart phone. I also have a GPS enabled camera and several GPS receivers and some other devices. My favorite mobile device is my bicycle, especially when Heather is riding with me. What is your favorite mobile device?

Outside

We found this beauty at Mount Rainier National Park a couple years ago. I live for being outside. I have been under the weather for over a week and it has been cold so I am having severe outside withdrawals. 

Inside

Like I have said I’ve been inside quite a bit. In front of the fire. I’ve been reading a lot, blogging a little, and watching the Olympics. I’ve also started watching the old television program “Breaking Bad.” I am major addicted to it. The violence is very disturbing but the the acting and the story line makes it compelling. And Heather wanted to know what I was going to do with the Chromecast I wanted for Christmas. I love the Olympics but this one at Sotchi is just making me think “Are you kidding me?” I mean the waste and corruption that went on building the facilities and infrastructure and the glossing over a brutal past and present government is just kind of strange. Hey, I love the competition though!

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Beverage

Let me see, Lemon Drop Martini for Heather, Tanqueray and Tonic for me! Got it?

Snuggle

This is Chrissy our big ole Maine Coon. She was the alpha critter in the house. We had to put her to sleep Friday night on an all the sudden basis. I miss her considerably. I wrote hundreds of blog posts with her help, but the other critters are trying already to become the replacement snuggle critter. I’m holding auditions. None of them measure up so far.

Thick

We used to have a restaurant downtown that made the best beef stew, french bread, carrot cake. This was my standard pre blood giving meal.

Behind the Lens

Gotcha! or Gotme! the event photographer at the Oklahoma Oil Show.

Where Were You?

There I am, what are you looking at?

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Ribbon

I cheated here. I didn’t have a single ribbon pic on file that didn’t involve Christmas and right now, I am not into Christmas. So how about a concrete ribbon. Except this one is asphalt. Except the asphalt is over some concrete. Way out in western Oklahoma on Interstate 40. 

Writing or Letters

Another example of my non-refinement. Not a single pic available of writing anything. All our writing is online. So how about these letters made out of driftwood nailed on the side of restaurant out in the middle of nowhere somewhere between Seattle and Mount Rainier.

Notice

When I see a notice like this. I tend to pay attention. Here in Oklahoma I always assume that snakes could be present any time of the year. I recommend that you do also when you visit.

Silhouette

A late afternoon dog walk during a warmer and greener time of year.

On Water

My wife and son in a canoe at Island Park, Idaho last summer. I bet that pond has a coat of ice on it at least a foot thick.

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