{"id":1787,"date":"2009-04-22T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:14:34","slug":"watery-wednesday-a-sunday-morning-walk-along-the-arkansas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"Watery Wednesday &#8211; A Sunday morning walk along the Arkansas River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Sunday morning walk on Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">South Side of the Jenks Pedestrian Bridge at dark thirty in the morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327326420602148018\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Image14-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Started north. I&#8217;m a sucker for any kind of trail. This one is nice, asphalt and well lit, even at dark thirty.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327326431058516722\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Image17-225x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> Part of the woods between the trail and the river is eagle habitat. Stay out from November to the middle of March.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327338620316589042\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 280px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Eagle-Sign-209x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>Went as far as the new Creek River Spirit Casino, open less than a month. Cost, reportedly about $195 million. 300,000 sqare feet of space. I&#8217;ve been watching them build this for a long time. Nope, I didn&#8217;t drop in a few quarters before I turned around.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327326411974038306\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Image8-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It&#8217;s getting light, sun is coming up. Here is a picture of the eagle sanctuary. You can see the river through the trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327328820974048850\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Image9-225x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">I beg your indulgence here. My employer&#8217;s natural gas pipeline crossing the river. My crew at work buys a lot of the gas that goes through this thing from thousands of gas wells in western Oklahoma. This pipeline is ultimately connected to almost all the gas pipelines in the United States. If you live in North America and have a natural gas line to your your house, it is connected to this line.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327328816058295922\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Image22-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>An hour after I started, a picture of the north side of the Jenks Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327326968180423058\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Image21-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/waterywednesday.blogspot.com\/\">Watery Wednesday <\/a>for great photographs of water from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday morning walk on Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma. South Side of the Jenks Pedestrian Bridge at dark thirty in the morning. Started north. I&#8217;m a sucker for any kind of trail. This one is nice, asphalt and well lit, even at dark thirty. Part of the woods between the trail and the river is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8281,"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":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watery-wednesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}