Went on a bike ride a few days ago and stopped at my favorite rest spot. I call it the Bear Fountain on Tulsa’s RiverParks Trails. All that falling water off the fountain is very peaceful. That day there was a strong wind from the south so I started at the north end of the trail and fought the wind all the way south. What a slog!! Thing was, after I rested up here at the fountain I went back north, I felt like I was flying back to my car!!
Wishing you a strong wind pushing you forward today!
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.
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.
Now it is about 7F and we have a few inches of snow. What a difference a day or two makes!
Seen on a hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area. I used the Hipstamatic app on my phone to take the photo to enhance the texture and emphasize the age of the formation.
