This Thanksgiving we are visiting family in the big sky country of western Oklahoma. Wherever you are I wish a great day full of family and friends. We’ll be visiting and eating a little too much. I might be the only Dallas Cowboys game in the bunch but hey that is okay.
LInking with Skywatch Friday
Last Friday I had the day off and after dropping Logan off at school I drove up to Oxley Nature Center for a hike. Across the road the dew was still on the grass of Mohawk Park Golf Course. A beautiful day was starting with not a cloud in the sky. So I violated all the rules and decided to shoot into the sun. I liked that big ole tree and was too lazy to wade across the canal and get on the other side of it.
Last Saturday, Heather and I were walking to a craft show in a not so great neighborhood just east of downtown Tulsa when I spotted this tree with the bright yellow leaves set against the blue sky and in amongst garbage carts, a food truck, and the back of a stop sign. I live in a city folks many of my Skywatch pictures have power lines, billboards, and other distractions. But I take the pics anyway. (Amongst is a word in Oklahoma by the way)
What about you, do you ever just take the pic anyway?
Last weekend, son and I went on a little hike on Turkey Mountain just to get outside and get some fresh air and walk around a bit. We didn’t go to far, just a couple miles but the sky was blue, and the air was warm and dry. You have to take advantage of all the good days you can this time of year.
Fall and fell and the Autumn dramatics have started. This is a scene from the Tulsa Botanic Garden a week or so ago. It’s exciting, Fall in the northern hemisphere and Spring to the south, seasons are changing.
It is that time of year. The days are getting shorter and now the sun is getting low on the later parts of rush hour. October is my favorite month for a bunch of reasons.
Linking with Skywatch Friday
It is getting to be that time of year when we start getting great sunsets and sunrises. I got this the other day in downtown Tulsa. A nice light show.
Linking with Skywatch Friday
I was heading to work Tuesday morning and I had to stop and take this pic with my free generic non Apple, non Samsung, smart phone cell phone camera. No filter, just a little cropping. Urban skies are like this, powerlines, light poles, buildings, cars and all that. Somehow, it all works, for me at least.
This week’s Skywatch Friday shot is from my mother’s beloved Idaho. She grew up there and moved for a time and came back when she and my Dad retired. She’s been gone for some time and I think of her every day. Most of what I am today is because of her. 
She was a natural Forest Ranger’s wife. She loved the mountains and loved her family. She always told Dad that she would live anywhere but she had to be able to see mountains.
We lived in some really out of the way places sometimes in Forest Service houses. I remember when we moved from Coyote, New Mexico to Payson, Arizona and you know what. The houses we lived in were exactly the same!!
Coytote, New Mexico Ranger Station, brother Bob on her right on my on her left.
She loved her kids, her grandkids, and her many nieces and nephews, and their kids too!!
Here she is giving Logan a lift.
She had her health issues but she never let them slow her down.
Rest in Peace Mom
