{"id":11970,"date":"2018-09-18T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11970"},"modified":"2018-09-18T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:37:16","slug":"skywatch-friday-life-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11970","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday – Life on the River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From the end of my bike ride earlier this week. I love a little color in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Arkansas River runs through the middle of Tulsa from North to South. We are lucky because a huge part of the River is a public park of one sort or another for miles and miles. So we have lots of bike trails, many on both sides of the river. I have either run or rode my bike or walked every inch of them. I have\u00a0 never got tired of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 21st street bridge from far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And up close.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ONEOK Boathouse in the background with Peggy’s Pond.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tulsa’s brand new park A Gathering Place for Tulsa<\/a> is right on the river. Check the link. The home page is basically a flyover of everything and you can see how intimately the park is integrated with the River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love the ripples in the pond. See the tall grass across the way. Most of the park is planted in native prairie grasses so no mowing, a lot less water, and fertilizer, so less money spent on maintenance, less chemicals on the land and the river, better habitat for bugs and birds. Win-win-win. Sustainability to most Okies is how to maintain high flows from\u00a0 older fracked wells.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It has been open about 10 days and I have been there five days. That’s ratio that I would like to keep up. Looking at the video I mentioned above I saw about four or five things that I hadn’t seen yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of these days, maybe when it gets cold, and it isn’t so crowded I am going to come over here and climb the towers and do some exploring. I may forego the slide though. I think my outside diameter is greater than its inside diameter. That would be a problem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s a great place to take photographs. There are all sorts of things, and angles, and reflections, and interesting structures to make photographs. So I hope you don’t get tired of it. You see I’m still pretty excited about the Gathering Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am linking to Skywatch Friday <\/a>this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Arkansas River runs through the middle of Tulsa from North to South. We are lucky because a huge part of the River is a public park of one sort or another for miles and miles. So we have lots of bike trails, many on both sides of the river. I have either run or […]<\/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":[2276,1290,1271],"class_list":["post-11970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-a-gathering-place","tag-arkansas-river","tag-skywatch-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970"}],"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=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11971,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions\/11971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}