{"id":14172,"date":"2022-09-21T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:11:24","slug":"skywatch-friday-hot-summer-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14172","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Hot Summer Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nNaTXX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52374674305_fc901e7390.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was up on Turkey Mountain Tuesday afternoon, watering the Monarch Way Station. A nursery had donated some plants to us on Saturday and we planted and watered them that day. It&#8217;s been scorching since so I watered them again. Still hot. Fortunately I have pretty good place to watch the watering, and the goings on in the main parking lot. Took me about an hour to do and I decided to go on a short hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nNagv2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52374551639_0417db8df0_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I drove up to the upper parking lot and took off to what some call the &#8220;back country&#8221; to the northwest. Not near as many people that way. I saw two mountain bikers and another hiker during my trek. I used a combination of new trails including the above, and&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nN8Bj1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52374228056_ecded3d573_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>the older trails which still hold most of the mystery of Turkey Mountain to me. I can feel the history on Turkey Mountain. It&#8217;s had farmers, cattlemen, oilfield roughnecks and drillers, moonshining, and up until the cartels put them out of business, meth labs. I still think that there is a lot of monkey business goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nNaQJC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52374663440_b5c6fe3041_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was checking out the trees, many of them are wild and twisted. The competitive forces of nature at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nN3Rnn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52373299787_908086b4ba_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature is just awesome. Below is the route I took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src='https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/9644919315' title='Tulsa Walking' width='465' height='500' frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>And now a bonus section courtesy of NASA. It is the clearest view of Neptune us earthlings have seen since the Voyager 2 satellite moseyed by in 1989. This was shot with the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nN2QcP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52373100757_3ebf7f8491.jpg\" alt=\"New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune\u2019s Rings in Decades\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Photo courtesy of \u00a0NASA, ESA, CSA, STSc under a Creative Commons License. Click on photo to get the details.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is shot in near infrared light so it is not as blue as previous images. You can see the rings (Neptune has rings? Now I know).  And 14 moons!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up on Turkey Mountain Tuesday afternoon, watering the Monarch Way Station. A nursery had donated some plants to us on Saturday and we planted and watered them that day. It&#8217;s been scorching since so I watered them again. Still hot. 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