{"id":13486,"date":"2021-08-11T22:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T03:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2021-08-11T22:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T03:44:56","slug":"august-skies-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13486","title":{"rendered":"August Skies in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a mish-mash this week. Many of the photos are from my Go Pro Clone so the quality is not that great. I set it to take a photo every ten seconds during my bike rides so I get hundreds of photos and keep only a few per ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went riding on the Arkansas River Trails her in Tulsa. They have this huge flag at 61st street and I love it when the breeze makes it fly full. That happens a lot here in Oklahoma. Are you familiar with the musical Oklahoma! you may remember:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“where\u00a0the<\/strong>\u00a0wind<\/strong>\u00a0comes sweepin’ down the plain. And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet. When the\u00a0wind<\/strong>\u00a0comes right behind the rain.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wind blows here all the time, rain or no rain, wheat or no wheat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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School is starting and so not very many people on the trails except old retired guys and moms with their babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I always feel like I am in a cage going across this bridge. If I see somebody coming I stop and let them come across. After my head on bike collision last year, I know the unthinkable can happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Went past one of the two Holly Frontier refineries here in Tulsa. I’m a chemical engineer by training and so I love the TST’s and LRO’s. (Tall Shiny Things and Large Round Objects). So you are now a chemical engineer also!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, here is a decent photo. I went on another trail south of Tulsa the other day. Only about 10 miles round trip but that is a decent length for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The same trail went across a revamped pedestrian bridge. It was so cool and up to date. I read that “Love Locks” are a pain for many places but here they have designed a couple Love Lock stations. I love responsive stuff like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They had seating and covered areas and built in musical instruments for kids. I thought the whole thing was marvelous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later I went to Mad Dog Liquors in east Tulsa. In addition to being a liquor store it is a graffiti permission zone. The liquor store part of it seems to be closed (again) but that doesn’t stop the taggers. I love this work. If you look closely you can see it has a pipeline motif. I am trained as a chemical engineer but I spent a bunch of my career designing, building, operating, and doing commercial things with natural gas pipelines. You know what they say, “Nothing finer than a pipeliner.” Actually only pipeliners say that. That doesn’t mean its not true though, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so time to end this mish mash mess. I’m linking it up with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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