{"id":15949,"date":"2026-04-08T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:22:45","slug":"skywatch-friday-close-to-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15949","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Close to Home"},"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\/2s57W8N\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55180587276_8b6b866a7b.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The neighborhood adjoining us has a &#8220;swan pond&#8221; complete with a black swan that chases off all the other waterfowl.<\/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\/2s3uc6E\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162101972_8232586037.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from my front yard looking to the west at sunset one day.<\/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\/2s5wYhG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55185277208_feb3bfa43a.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A volunteer group that I am a member of had a meeting a local brewery just out of downtown. Leaving I took this photo looking west toward downtown Tulsa and the setting sun.<\/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\/2s6pmVT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55195108973_e911312db6.jpg\" alt=\"Home by the Lake by Frederic Church\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a painting I found at our recent trip to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is &#8220;Home by the Lake&#8221; by Frederic Church. It&#8217;s a great skywatch painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Skywatch Friday.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighborhood adjoining us has a &#8220;swan pond&#8221; complete with a black swan that chases off all the other waterfowl. This is from my front yard looking to the west at sunset one day. A volunteer group that I am a member of had a meeting a local brewery just out of downtown. Leaving I [&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":[4033,1271,1285],"class_list":["post-15949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-paintings","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949"}],"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=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15950,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions\/15950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}