Black and White Weekend - Sycamore Trinity

Three Sycamores so close to each other that they have grown together to be one tree.

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Skywatch Friday - Dark Sky

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Thursday Challenge - Signs

Mural with Native American motif  on west side of Rose Company at 316 East 2nd Street, Tulsa.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and readers.

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Wordless Wednesday - Ghost Signs.

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Ruby Tuesday - Red 3-Wheeler

Sue and I took a drive over to the Illinois River east of Tahlequah and met a man with a beautiful custom 3-wheel cycle and a trailer to match.  I was impressed.

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Macro Monday - Assorted Anemone

Monterrey Aquarium

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The Beach at Santa Cruz

Son Paul and wife Beth at the Santa Cruz beach from our visit in 2003 when they lived in Monterrey, California.  Paul is career Navy and has managed to be stationed in places that are fun to visit.  Very thoughtful of him.

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Weekend Reflections - The Houston Center

Just west of downtown at West 7th and South Houston is a glass walled commercial building called (logically enough) The Houston Center.

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Skywatch Friday - Giraffe

Southwood Nursery has everything - - shrubs, trees, flowers, even a pair of outdoor giraffes.

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Wordless Wednesday - East Meets West

This larger than life bronze sculpture resides in Cyrus Avery Plaza next to the Route 66 arch I posted last weekend.  Along the back of the plaza are the flags of the eight states through which Route 66 passes.  They are, from west to east, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois.

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Ruby Tuesday - My Autumn Maple

This is the maple tree in front of my house.  A sharp freeze last week has brought color to trees all over Tulsa.  We are having a beautiful autumn.  When the wind blows the leaves fall in a technicolor rain.

     CYCLE

When summer's burning heat at last is over,
and autumn rains again refresh the earth.
There is a burst of life which like a nova
hurls out the light that precedes icy death.

The wind boils leaves in heaven's flashing cauldron
an endless stream of color swirls and falls,
and reveals Seurat's dappled vision,
a patchwork quilt that flows and covers all.

That which spring began and summer nurtured,
at autumn's end must safe be stored inside.
With winter's cold the cycle's finally ended.
Tender life digs deep, flies south, or dies.

At last comes winter's quiet time which brings
all life's return in resurrection spring.

          G.W. Bill Miller
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Macro Monday - Little Wren

This may not strictly be a macro but it is a closeup.  Any excuse to post a picture of my granddaughter Wren is sufficient.  She is the daughter of my youngest son Luke and she is a sweetheart.

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Black & White Weekend - Route 66 in Tulsa

Route 66 runs right through downtown Tulsa.  The city has celebrated that with a memorial arch at the place where the highway begins to pass over the Arkansas River.

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Skywatch Friday - Pensacola Beach Pier

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Thursday Challenge - Patterns

Bamboo Forest, Japan, 2003

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Wordless Wednesday - Smokey

He's watching me eat a piece of chicken.

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Ruby Tuesday - The Hills are Ablaze

The hillside across the Arkansas River is bright with color.

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Macro Monday - Sculpture

I found this sculpture by local artist Steven Greunau at Southwood Nursery.

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Black & White Reflection - Belagio Fountain

The fountains at the Belagio Hotel in December of 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Friday Skywatch - Monterrey Bay

Ten years ago we visited Sue's son Paul and his family in Monterrey, California, and enjoyed the Monterrey Aquarium.  Next month we will visit him again in Eastern Maryland which is next door to Washington DC and the many museums of the Smithsonian Institute.  Paul is a career officer in the Navy having graduated from the Naval Academy in 1998.  He has been considerate enough to be stationed in a number of interesting places over the last 15 years so that we can enjoy some great visits with him and his beautiful wife and two lovely children.  In between our visits on both coasts of the US, we have visited them in Japan, and in South Korea.  He has been very considerate that way.  We are hoping for Europe next time.

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