I hate to say it but I have been uninspired by our skies lately. Either is overcast and gloomy or we have beautiful days without a cloud in the sky. So I dug up a photo from April a couple years ago of a yellow flower in the sky. All I can say now is “Come on April!!”
How about you, are you looking forward to April? I know I am but first we have to have the Super Bowl.
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No filter, no software, no nothing, right out of the camera.
The weather was perfect for my Wednesday night run on the river: temperature in the mid 40’s and no wind. It felt almost warm. I got to the Arkansas River just as the sun was going down. My Nikon AW110 point and shoot has a night landscape mode so I tried it out and it wasn’t too bad. This was from the east side of the river.
When I went across to the west side of the river, the sun was long gone but I took a shot east across the river to downtown Tulsa. I cropped the photo and it has a little fuzzy wuzzy about it but not too bad. Mainly I like the reflection of the buildings in the river.
I am still in recovery from my injury in September and I have my good days and my not so good days. Wednesday night was one of the not so good runs. Both legs were aching and I decided to cut things short at three miles instead of my planned five but at about the 1.5 mile point things started coming together and feeling better and I finished my shortened run strong.
I haven’t been taking very many decent sky pictures here in Oklahoma lately. It is either bright blue skies or rainy or overcast so I’ve gone back to the archives to our trip to Hawaii last summer. Talk about breathtakingly beautiful scenery everywhere you look. I think this was the island of Kauai. I’m terrible about documenting my photos, just terrible.
The weather has turned pretty nippy here. I have to tell you that Tulsa is as far north as what I want to live. The Gulf Coast is beckoning me right now, something fierce. I hate being cold!!
How about you? Are you happy where you are or wish you somewhere else? When I put it like that, I’m like, yes I’m happy right where I am at. Plus if I moved I would just find something else to complain about.
So I guess I’ll stay a while.
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A shot to the southeast off my front porch a week or so ago. Sometimes you don’t need to drive a long ways to get a photograph.
I hope that everybody had a good Christmas. I know I did. I’ve been very lazy, read some books, watched a few movies, stayed up late, slept in late, getting really fat.
So now we have New Years. Everybody have a good time and stay safe. I wish everybody a great and prosperous New Year!
Merry Christmas to all of you who observe it, Happy Skywatching to everybody. This is from our trip to Hawaii last summer.
How about some Bing Crosby and Mele Kalikimaka?
Now, Elvis and Martina Mcbride: Blue Christmas
I dropped the kid off at school the other morning and being a day off I spent a few minutes walking on the River. It was the start of a glorious day. The sun was bright, the sky was blue, the air was clear and cold with a stiff breeze. It doesn’t get better than that.
For Thanksgiving we spent with family western Oklahoma. It is truly the land of the big skies and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, son Logan, brother Bob, and I went on a walk around a local pond. It was spectacular, not a cloud in the deep blue sky, the grass and brush were a golden color but the trees still had a lot of green on them. It was like a perfect moment that I will remember forever.
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Last week before the five or six days of rain at one of my favorite fountains and sculptures on Tulsa’s River Parks.
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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?