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Shadow Shot Sunday – Warm, Shadowy, February Days

A bicycle shadows at the start of a bike ride on Tulsa’s RiverParks Trails. 15 miles and it was all good. Most bicyclists I know don’t think 15 miles is even a decent warmup. I love 15 miles myself.

Out on a hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain I found me a shadow selfie.

It’s a plastic ammo box laying on its side.

I’m a geocacher. Turkey Mountain has a geocache hidden in a hole in a cliff that I can see but cannot get to it. I’m a purist. If I can’t hold the cache, open it, and sign the log then I am not going to claim a find. They need to have another category such as “seen but couldn’t get to.” I got lots of those. Caches up in trees and such that I can’t reach. If I had somebody with me, then sure I’d try using ropes. The cache above is in a pretty remote area. If I fell and broke something and if I couldn’t get cell phone signal then I’d be in tough shape. Of course if I fell and was able to get help, my wife might kill me for being so dumb. So its kind of a lose/lose proposition. Meanwhile I’ll keep on checking on it. Maybe some critter will knock it out to the ground and then I could sign the log.

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Shadows – Cause and Effect

We had a warm sunny day in Tulsa last week so I went for a walk at Lafortune Park.

I found this shadow at the public swimming pool. A shadow of a tree up against a cool midcentury modern style brick screen.

I love chain link fence shadows.

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And some tree trunk tree shadows at the baseball field.

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I like this also. The rough edged shadow from the wall right near the smooth lines of the concrete walkway edge.

So that was my photowalk on a nice sunny day. I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday.

Shadow Shot Sunday – Through the Magic Portal

A “Moon Gate” to a trail system here in Tulsa. I think they are kind of cool. Like symbolically passing into another dimension. My hiking friend hates them and walks around them. This time I noticed afterward it made an oval shadow. If I was more on the ball I could have captured more of the oval than what I did.

And on the other side of the moongate, we got these shadows on the trail. This was the Thursday before the polar vortex and the temp was in the high 50’s.

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Now it is about 7F and we have a few inches of snow. What a difference a day or two makes!

Stay warm folks!!

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Shadow Shot Sunday – Tulsa Edition

This is our Pomeranian, Kodi. He is not in a crate, he is next to a screen keeping him out of the room next door. He found a sunny spot on a cold day.

Went on a bike ride on Tulsa’s Arkansas RiverParks Trails. Stopped to rest up here a little and noticed my big shadowy wheel.

A winter hike on Turkey Mountain. There are no leaves left so the sun cast shadows of the trees across the trail.

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Komorebi Sights – A Japanese Word comes to Oklahoma

Through somebody at TikTok I learned a new Japanese word that I love, Komorebi. It refers to light filtering through trees and casting a shadow on the ground. It induces a sense of wonder in those observing it. Google the word, there is a lot to it. So a light went off in my head on this because I’ve always loved sunlight through leaves and I love dappled shadows.

Above is what I mean by dappled shadows.

Dappled Shadows on my backyard fence.

Light filtering through leaves at a local park.

Backing off a little bit from the same tree and you get the filtered light and the dappled shadows.

I love this word, it names a feeling that I have had for a long time. When I go hiking I’ve shot a lot of photos at the end of the day especially of the sun peaking through the leaves or branches. Dappled shadows that I come upon often leaves me amazed. Especially when the wind is blowing and I’m watching shadows moved.

Since I have learned the word, I am seeing Komorebi everywhere I look almost.

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