{"id":11231,"date":"2017-02-21T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T03:22:37","slug":"skywatch-friday-a-family-walk-at-oxley-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11231","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; A Family Walk at Oxley Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"_DSC0228\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32807677692\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2301\/32807677692_36afde6cf3_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0228\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday the family decided to go for walk at Tulsa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxleynaturecenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary K. Oxley Nature Center<\/a>. One of the best kept secrets in Tulsa. Acres and acres of trails, woods, marsh, lakes, and meadows and hardly anybody ever visits it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0226\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32580839820\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2479\/32580839820_ba42e34438_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0226\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well somebody had been visiting. We saw a few of these in the park but they didn&#8217;t look like they had been used.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0233\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32580623570\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/320\/32580623570_10a528b1ef_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0233\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I love the big and small ponds, lakes, and streams on the property.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0243\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32920363456\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2337\/32920363456_0e6cac6d79_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0243\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It looked like some beavers had been hard at work.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0238\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32961264135\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2152\/32961264135_5ca8708b26_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0238\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A sign needs either replacing or fetched.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0240\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32117821024\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2720\/32117821024_3755c442e4_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0240\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A nice surprise were some pelicans. They were cruising about. The geese seemed a little put off their visitors.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0246\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32117646214\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2424\/32117646214_eb822086d7_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0246\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heather taking in the view near the photo blind.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0253\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32919785286\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2634\/32919785286_aef577fd9a_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0253\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yep, I&#8217;m a lucky guy is what I think.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0256\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/32116978644\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/593\/32116978644_ac521b05ff_z.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0256\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heather and our gentle giant of a son, Logan checking out some storm damage from last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tulsa Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/1578320913\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here is our route. About 3 miles and a good mix of woods, open land, and water. We saw nobody else during our three miles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skywatch Friday<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday the family decided to go for walk at Tulsa&#8217;s Mary K. Oxley Nature Center. One of the best kept secrets in Tulsa. Acres and acres of trails, woods, marsh, lakes, and meadows and hardly anybody ever visits it. Well somebody had been visiting. We saw a few of these in the park but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1041,1279,1329,1276,1374,1926,1271,1344],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-geese","tag-heather","tag-hiking","tag-logan","tag-oxley-nature-center","tag-pelicans","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}