A tree casting its shadow on a local elementary school.
From the Trailcam
Sometimes I set up the trailcam and leave it out for a week or two without checking on it and then I go pull the chip to see what is on it. The last time I did it there were hundreds of images but really nothing to see. It is tripped by motion and Oklahoma is windy so shadows and waving branches trigger it.
The only other images I got were of our dog Kodi, and sometimes me and or my wife in the backyard. Here’s Kodi lurking around at night.
He likes to chase tennis balls so sometimes we have late night play sessions.
He loves chase but he doesn’t bring it back to me.
And here he is lurking around in the daylight.
I’m linking with Saturday’s Critters
Skywatch Friday – Black Friday Edition
We had the full Beaver Moon recently on a very cold clear night. I always love the full moon.
We still have some fall color to go with our blue skies.
I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. Did you go shopping on Black Friday. I went on a hike in a secludeed area of Turkey Mountain here in Tulsa.
Saw some great sights, took a lot of photographs.
Got on some rugged legacy trails and then on some of the newer twisty turny trails.
I encountered four other people on my hike with is four more than what I usually see in this part of the park. I only went about two miles. but it was great.
I am linking with Skywatch Friday
Mariachi Birthday
My mother-in-law had a birthday recently. She went on a trip years ago to Mexico and fell in love with Mariachi Music and has said she wants such a band at her funeral. Her housekeeper, who is from Mexico, said that my MIL should have a Mariachi band while alive so the housekeeper arranged a surprise visit by a band she knew recently.
A few friends and family were visiting and then the doorbell rang and in came the band singing.
They sang for an hour. It was marvelous. My MIL was very happy. The group has been together for years and they only do private events all over northeast Oklahoma.
What a great birthday gift!! None of us there will ever forget it.
I’m linking with My Corner of the World
Thanksgiving Shadows
Lizzie the Cat
I didn’t have any new critter pics this week and was about to check out the archives when Lizzie the cat jumped up on the coffee table and said what about me? So I took her photo. So she is my Saturday Critter this week since it is Caturday, right?
Thanksgiving 2023
Thanksgiving 2023 is complicated.
We are always thankful for our many blessings.
But sometimes their are distractions such as health and wellness that intrude.
But you know, just look around, there is lots to be thankful about. I am loving the fall colors in northeast Oklahoma.
And of course we have our sometimes spectacular skies to be thankful for. Especially those skies that don’t have funnel clouds in them!
From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!! a couple days early, but what they hey.
Linking with My Corner of the World and Skywatch Friday
Shadows on the Trail
Saturday I took a short walk on a bicycle path to look for a geocache.
Across this funky enclosed bridge across Mooser Creek.
Next to this tree bunch casting some cool afternoon shadows.
The cache is somewhere in the rocks to the left of the tree. Ididn’t find the cache. It’s about the third time I’ve looked. Everybody else is finding it pretty easily. Oh well, I had a nice walk.
I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday 2.
Saturday’s Critters – at Home
Here’s our one year old pomeranian, Kodi. He was kind of shaggy so he went to the groomer today and he got all trimmed up and got a special Thanksgiving tie to boot. He tore it off very quickly but we got a photo of him.
Here he is in the back yard. He loves picking up acorns and bringing them inside to trade for a treat.
And a black and white cat who shows up when it is dark.
And sometimes in broad daylight.
And a first sighting for this light colored cat.
And of course squirrels. We are inundated with them.
And I’m linking this week with Saturday’s Critters
Skywatch Friday – Here and There
Took this photo on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness while doing a little citizen science project.
Every two weeks I go set nine traps for native pollinators. Three each of green, white, and red and then later go collect the bugs and put them in sealed tubes. I doing it for a professor at the University of Oklahoma. It’s all fine and good except my wife is not happy about frozen bugs in our freezer. At the end of next month I send all my data and the bugs to the professor.
A scene on my hike bike to the parking lot. I’ve been experimenting with RAW photography on my cell phone. I use an app called Halide to do it. RAW format photos are lots bigger than jpg files and thus contain lots of information. The visuals of the photos are kind of flat and dull but you can edit them with many phone based apps such as snapseed. I use the phone based photoshop and lightroom. I think it can really add a lot of dimensions to the photo under the right circumstances. I like how the above photo turned out.
As you may know if you have been following me for a while I am impatient with the purist ethic of photography to use no filters or processing. I respect if that is what you want to do, that’s great. Me, I love monkeying around with photos. Many of photos are unprocessed though, I would guess maybe half to two thirds.
Here is an unedited photo of some evening color from my front porch. I love it when my fellow skywatchers take photos from their property.
And here is an unedited photo from my back porch one morning.
And another from the greenbelt in our subdivision.
And yet another from the elementary school where I am a volunteer reading tutor.
That’s it for this week. I am linking with Skywatch Friday.