Tag Archives: Shadows

Midcentury Modern Shadows

Recently I went on a walk around Tulsa’s Lafortune Park. The walking trail winds around the park which contains a lot of things. An 18 hole golf course and a par 3 course as well, playgrounds, a pony league and little league ballparks, fishing ponds, a huge tennis complex, a high school, a public swimming pool, a public library and more!! The trail is paved and 3 miles long and is very popular. On warm days I like it’s shady spots.

The clubhouse for the golfcourse has two walls made out of concrete blocks. I don’t know how old they are but they look like the blocks that were common for screen walls back in the 50’s and 60’s.

Don’t see too much of them any longer. I love them. It makes for a screening wall with a lot of visual interest, including geometric shadows.

I’ll finish with these shadows. A tree in our backyard late in the day. I loved the pattern of sunlight and shadows on the tree trunk and limbs.

Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadow Shot Sunday – Patio and Basketball Court

Late afternoon shadows on our backyard patio late in the afternoon. The strips of light is from the sun peaking through the gaps in our picket fence.

Went on a walk at a local park. No basketball games today. I played ball on these type courts growing up. Sometimes when it snowed we would shovel off the snow the best we could and play on the wet court.

I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadow in the Fog

The other day we had a lot of fog in the neighborhood, and I liked the way the streetlight near our house looked so I attempted an artsy shot to capture what it looked like. I didn’t really succeed in what I was trying but I liked the shot anyway.

The streetlight cast a shadow I hadn’t even noticed when I took the shot. It made a shadow out of the adjacent stop sign. So even though I didn’t get what I was wanting, I am happy with the shadow I captured.

Also with shadows, today is Groundhog Day. We don’t have a groundhog but we got two chunky critters. Kodi,

And Lizzy,

They both saw their shadow. So I guess that we are going to have six more weeks of winter. You folks in the southern hemisphere, I guess you get six more weeks of summer, I don’t know how that works.

I am linking with ShadowShot Sunday

Shadow Shot Sunday – Living Screens

This ivy (or whatever it is) at Tulsa’s Guthrie Green provides some cooling shade in the summer from Oklahoma’s brutal sun and heat. In the winter it provides some shadows.

A short distance away a bamboo fence (or whatever it is) provides a green all year screen between a parking lot and the sidewalk.

You can tell I know all about plants!! Never had a lesson!

Shadow Shot Sunday