Category Archives: Skywatch

Whomping Tree and a Smart Kid

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My Son, SuperPizzaBoy and I were attending a function at a local elementary school a couple weeks ago during a beautiful Oklahoma Autumn day under a blue sky when we discovered this tree. I told him that it was a Whomping Tree, kind of like the Whomping Willow in the Harry Potter books.

SPB doesn’t believe a word  I say any more, hasn’t in years. He just walks up to the tree and laughs at me.

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Purple Skywatch

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I was heading off to work one morning last week and had to pull off on a side road to take this purply picture. Skies like this are a nice way to start the day.

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Sky Watch Friday – My New Cubicle at Oxley Nature Center

Last Saturday I found my new cubicle up in north Tulsa at Oxley Nature Center near the Zoo. Isn’t it a beauty?

New Cubicle @ Oxley

I know the seat looks a little hard and it’s more of an open concept type workspace but I don’t think privacy will be much of an issue. It is a long walk to the restrooms although there is a water feature on the way.

Pond at Oxley

My fellow coworkers are busy as bees. They have to be, some of them disappear for the winter.

flowers and bees

One thing I’ll have to get used to is the narrow hallways. They are nicely decorated.

Trail at Oxley

And I’ll save time, I won’t have to go far to find geocaches on my lunch hour. I’ll probably get tired of finding the same ones over and over. I’ll have to hide some of my own. The owners of this cache say it is on property once owned by an uncle of John Denver. Now how would they know that? Did little John run and play here as a kid while visiting his uncle? I’m digressing, sorry.

Geocache

The landscaping is unique in my new office. You’ve heard of the bluestem grass in Oklahoma as tall as a man on horseback. Check this out, I wasn’t doing the old crouching down thing. I was standing up straight. Can your plant service match that? Low maintenance also!
Blue Stem Grass at Oxley

So what do you think? Want to come join me? Visitors always welcome. Its only 15 minutes from my regular cubicle. We can have lunch! Bring it though, its a long walk to the nearest deli. You want your own cubicle. There is another space nearby. We can at least wave to each other.

Neighboring tree

Ooops, Sorry, thanks for reminding me. This is a good place for Skywatch pictures also.

Oxley Sky

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Arkansas River Skywatch

I went for my weekly after work run on the Arkansas River last night. Autumn is here, the air is drier, the sun is lower. I love Fall in Tulsa.

Arkansas River Sunset

What is Fall like where you live?

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Skywatch Friday – Cloudy Days

We are about to get rained out in northeast Oklahoma. When we don’t have rain, we have clouds. I’ll take it.

I don’t know about the sky, but I would love to have this as an office window. I love how big it is, the shape, and the color. The whole building is vacant, buy it and you can have your pick of this window or a couple dozen others just like it.

It cleared up a little bit, for a little while. This is reflecting off the glass curtain at Tulsa’s new BOK Arena downtown.
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