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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Wiggling Cookies!

It’s that time of week for Scavenger Hunt Sunday by Ashley Sisk. I have skipped the past few weeks and I’m back and boy did I pick a tough day to return. I had to cheat even more than I normally do. So let’s see what I got!!

1. #5

#5! What in tarnation does that mean? After much deliberation and thought I think it means the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in nearby Muskogee, Oklahoma. It’s a great little museum. I’ll tell you what though, I don’t want to make anybody mad but reading the story of the brutal forced relocation of the Tribes from the southeast USA to Oklahoma way back when is sobering. Especially after viewing an exhibit at the museum on the many Congressional Medal of Honor honorees from the Five Tribes.

It is a must stop if you are in the area.

2.Word of the Day

That is another one, Word of the Day? Well it is Scavenger Hunt Sunday so the word of the day is Sun. Sorry its a little fuzzy.

3.Sharing

Speaking of fuzzy, this is a fuzzy pic of SuperPizzaBoy sharing his performance of “Pick a Pocket or Two” during a school assembly a few years ago.

4.Wiggle

Wiggling is kind of like dancing right. Here is the world’s greatest nephew, Mr. Beans dancing with the world’s cutest flower girl at my niece Jillian’s wedding a couple years ago.

5.Cookies!

Cookies is easy. These were baked by the world’s greatest MIL Nana. They were incredible. They sure didn’t last long.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Candy is Dandy but …

It is that time of the week for Ashley Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday. She has a romantic theme going on this week.

1.Candy

Nothing more romantic than chocolate truffles is there?

2.Pink or Red

You can never go wrong with pink roses can you?

3.Love

Peace Man, cool, I love my hot chick.

4.Kisses

Nothing like a wedding for kisses. This is my niece Jillian and her husband Brian at their wedding reception the year before last. Brian is freshly deployed overseas and they are both on the prayer list.

5.Smile

Nobody smiles like Sweetie does!

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – from Legoland to Seattle

Time for Ashley Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday. This was another tough week, for me at least.

The Small Things – inspired by Courtney Kirkland

A few years ago we went to Legoland in California. It is a fun place but what I really liked was all the lego cities they had. You could lay your camera right down in them and get some lifelike shots.

Illustration -inspired by THE Paper Mama (feel free to draw your own or photograph someone else’s…just give credit)

This segment at http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/blogging-blogosphere-infographics/
Full infographic at http://www.flowtown.com/blog/whos-in-the-blogosphere

Yes, I’m going to draw something and and take a picture of it and put it on the internet. Ashley, are you nuts!!! I found an infographic about bloggers. I’m just fascinated by my fellow bloggers. This infographic tells all about us.

Valentine – inspired by In the Moment With…

Sweetie and I stayed at a B&B in Eureka Springs a few years ago. This was the front office.

Work of Art – inspired by Kat Eye Studio (be creative!)

I love the Chihuly installation at the Missouri Botannical Gardens in Saint Louis.

Window Beauty – inspired by The Mortal Muses

We stumbled onto this building in Seattle while on vacation there last summer. I loved the windows in the ivy.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Hidden Edition

Time for another Scavenger Hunt – so lets get started.

1.Hidden

I’m totally into geocaching which, in a nutshell, is using a GPS receiver to find caches hidden by other people out in the woods or in the middle of a downtown or just about anywhere. I’ve found about 1200 by now and have hidden 29. Of course because of the chiggers, ticks, fire ants, and ticks I’ve had to go see my doctor a few times also. It provides much entertainment to his PA.

Go check out www.geocaching.com to check it out. Lots of tutorials and information on it there. It’s fun, its easy, but don’t forget the deet and don’t take any crap from your doctor’s PA.

2.Plain

The Tallgrass Praire Preserve in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Near the home of the Pioneer Woman.

3.Left

Our son, SuperPizzaBoy (in the red shirt above), has been in a comedy improv group for a couple years now. Every once in a while they give a performance. A popular improv game is chain murder. At the end there is only one person left.

4.Fast

A 1969 Jaguar XKE Series 2 Convertible is plenty fast for me.

5.Peace

This car belongs to somebody who was protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline Extension. Some of the Corps of Engineers hearings regarding the pipeline are held here in Tulsa.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday from Lace to Bling and more

Time again for Ashley Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday. This week’s hunt was especially challenging.

1.Lace

Lace, lace, I’m not much of a lace photographer. I didn’t quite know what to do. I briefly considered going to my favorite sporting goods store, Victoria’s Secret, with my camera but I wasn’t really in the mood to get escorted out of the store even in the performance of my journalistic duty as a blogger.

The above is a sugar mask from the Oklahoma Sugar Art Show. You may not know it but Oklahoma is big in the sugar art world.The masks are made from sugar and are so delicate that one observer’s bumping the table with their motorized wheelchair destroyed many of the masks.

2.Bling

Son and I went on a road trip to Oklahoma City and one of the things we did was tour the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center where we found these belts in the gift store.

3.Wood

Let me tell you about the relationship between me and wood. For a time our family lived in the small town of Eagar, Arizona up in the White Mountains. We heated the house with the fireplace so my brother and I got a lot of experience in hauling wood to the house, sawing it into fireplace length with a bow saw (see the photo, no chain saws for us), splitting the logs, stacking them, and then hauling a days worth from the wood stack to the front porch every day after school during heating season. So to make a long story short I am very happy with our natural gas fireplace. I don’t find the sight of real wood fires to be romantic at all!- Yes, that’s me in the photo above, probably about 1968 or so.

4.Fuzzy

Bison are pretty fuzzy, we have lots of them in Oklahoma but I found this guy I found in Wyoming’s Grand Teton Nationa Park last summer.

5.Fabric

My Father-in-law was a great guy and a small town pharmacist who passed away way before his time. He had quite a Christmas necktie collection. Nana, the world’s greatest MIL, had his ties made into quilt with the Grinch as a centerpiece. Charles was no Grinch, he was one of the most generous men I ever knew, but he enjoyed poking stuffed shirts when they needed it. For example he displayed a prominent quote from Charles Darwin in his office^. Let me clue you in: people in rural Oklahoma do not like Charles Darwin. Charles didn’t mean any disrespect, he just thought that Darwin had some good thoughts about responding to change.

Here is Charles with son in the pharmacy when son, SuperPizzaBoy, was just a baby. I’ll tell you that no Grandfather loved their Grandson as much as Charles loved SuperPizzaBoy. Anyway, we have the quilt hanging in our front room and not a day goes by that I don’t think of him.

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^Darwin’s quote that Charles had on display: ““It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.””

Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Baskets to People Watching

I made another attempt at Ashley Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sundays. This week’s edition was especially challenging.

1.Basket

Basket, Basket… I had to think about this one. I finally came up with a Native American basket on display at Phoenix’s fabulous Heard Museum that I visited last April. Whew.

2.Park

For “Park” I picked Tulsa’s Owen Park. One of Tulsa’s oldest and least known park. I took this picture on film on a cold overcast day.

3.Auto

Car is easy. Here is a picture of my car. I like it, I wish the mileage were better and that I had more presets on the radio, plus black is hard to keep clean. It gets me to work and back, what else do you need?

4.Recycle

Recycle was a tough one. I refused to go the garage and shoot our recycle bin. This is Bixby, Oklahoma’s 9/11 Memorial. It is a beam from the the World Trade Center. Lets never forget.

5.People Watching

I love people watching. It is one of my favorite activities.I have a 35 mm film camera that can shoot two shots side by side on one frame. I take it to public places and shoot away. State fairs, home and garden shows, concerts, grocery stores, casinos. All are good places to people watch. These are from the Tulsa State Fair.

That’s it for this week’s edition of Scavenger Hunt Sunday. Check out the other participants as they are very good photographers and very clever in their finds.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Outsides, Backsides, and More

I’m linking up again with AshleySisk dot com’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday where she provides five scavenger hunt items to hunt for ever week. It’s tough and challenging and also a lot of fun to see how the various participants interpreted the items. There are lots of creative photographers that participate (and then there is me.)

Without further ado, lets get to work.

1.Outside

I’m happiest outside, headed down a trail. In the woods during Autumn is wonderful but not necessary. The beach, a praire, a city park, downtown, I’m not picky. I love to walk and check things out.

2.Backside

I’m fascinated by alleys, the backsides of building. The front side is where the money is spent and customers come and go. The back is where the electricity and gas connections are, deliveries sent and received, and where the dumpsters are. The alleys are generally a lot more interesting than the front.

3.Little Things

I’m a geocacher. A high tech treasure hunt where “caches” are hidden and the GPS coordinates of the cache are posted on geocaching dot com. The finders download the coordinates and go find them. Usually they are tupperware type containers. Sometimes they are like the cache above which was hidden by the geocaching owner of a high rise in downtown New Orleans. He has the building engineer escort you up to the elevator penthouse for the search. Talk about the mother lode.

The other extreme are these tiny pill containers just a fraction of an inch long. They are extremely hard to find but some of them look like Christmas ornaments.

And some geocaches are hidden deep in the woods inside the homes of elves.

4.A Cup of…

You know I still like it when I order a latte and the barrista takes the time to make a design.

5.Reflect

Son and I went to Natural Falls State Park here in northeast Oklahoma last week. It is a beautiful and serene place with water falls and a nice lake set in a deep canyon. Much of the 1974 film “Where the Red Fern Grows” was filmed in the park.

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Geocaching 101

Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Guilty Pleasure

Another Scavenger Hunt this week, so lets get to it.

1. Joy

This is my niece Jillian at her wedding reception. She is joyous. Her mother, my sister, Ellen is to our left in the champagne colored dress. Jillian’s sister Mary (another beautiful niece!) is to our right in the black dress. My third beautiful niece, Dana is not pictured but she is also a knockout. I hit three for three on beauty on nieces with their personalized jewelry. Of course they take after their mother who thank goodness doesn’t look a thing like me.

I had to show Jillian’s handsome husband Brian.

2. Tangled

I found these extraordinary roots at the Woolaroc museum. I wondered what I was going to do with the picture and now I know!

3. Silver

I love silver and turquoise jewelry. I always choose silver for custom name ring. I find this beauty at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Most jewelry stores will let your try on most anything do you think a museum would if I asked really nicely?

4. Guilty Pleasure

Where am I going to go for some comfort food at lunch. The Coney-I-Lander in downtown Tulsa. Three coneys with chili, grated cheese, and onion. I add the cayenne pepper and tabasco sauce. Don’t knock it.

5. Angel

My wife’s has a Birthday Angel to celebrate her birthday. We hadn’t brought it out in years. I love it. One is never to old for a birthday angel are they? I love little family traditions.

That’s it for this week.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – A Few of My Favorite Things

This week’s hunt was hard for me but here it goes

1.Sparkly

I was thinking blingy, but I couldn’t find sparkly blingy so I’m using fireworks. They are kind of sparkly.

2.Door

I have photographed this funky blue door on the outskirts of downtown Tulsa several times. I’ve seen several professional looking photo shoots also. I don’t know what is behind the door. I hope it is something cool.

3.Decorate

I dabble in lomography which is a fancy word for using toy cameras loaded with film. We have family friends who decorated a juniper tree with bulbs. They were widely spaced so I put two of them together with a double exposure.

4.Stripes

I found this last week last week during a lunchtime walk in an otherwise, down at the heels, but up and coming, funky neighborhood.

5.A Few of My Favorite Things

There is almost nothing cuter than newborn lambs. Sheep are cool.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Missing!

This week’s prompts were challenging for me, which makes it fun!

1. Missing

One of my obsessions is geocaching that is a sport where people hide caches out in various locations and post the GPS coordinates on geocaching.com. Others go find the caches and log both a paper log in the cache and the online cache page. Sometimes I end up in creepy places like this long abandoned roadway near Tulsa. I walked down this road about a mile to the cache. This looked like a great place to go missing. Of course, not a soul knew that I was out there. If something happened to me it might a while before somebody found me.

2. Numbers

Good old number 103!

3. Purple

Christmas lights on Oklahoma City’s canal in the Bricktown area.

4. Music

A guitar tower at Seattle’s Experience Music Project. Talk about overwhelming. That was EMP.

5. Bracelet

26,000+ photos on Flickr that I’ve posted and not one bracelet tag so I’m cheating. This was my mother’s turquoise and silver handcrafted necklaces. Mom is gone and Dad gave me her necklace. I remember the day way back when Dad gave it to her. It was a great day for both of them.

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