Tulsa Gentleman

We toured the beautiful Cantigny Gardens at the McCormick Mansion and museum.  I have never seen such beautiful gardens anywhere,  I took s...

Next door to the Shedd Aquarium is the Field Museum of Natural History.  It was founded with a grant from Marshall Field who made his fortu...

Light from above the tank illuminates the fish in the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. See more Theme Thursdays:

We are staying at a nice Comfort Inn that has a small indoor swimming pool. This evening Mark brought his girls over for a swim.  Sue enjoy...

The beautiful Shedd Aquarium left us wordless.

On Saturday and Sunday of this week we drove from Tulsa to Chicago with an overnight stop in St Louis.   We are visiting Susan's son Mar...

This is a Skipper on a yellow Lantana.   I can't tell which variety of skipper because I am looking at the wings edgewise, but it is one...

The mirrored glass in the Commercial Plaza Building frames a view of the sky behind me .

Located directly behind the Tulsa Garden Center on South Peoria is a lovely Victorian conservatory housing exotic tropical plants and orchid...

Massive Cumulus clouds as far as the eye can see tower over the neighborhood near 15th and South Louisville.    Clouds like these are not u...

If you grew up in a country where baseball is played you know it is played in a "Ball Park". American Football is played on a Fo...

The Brookside Branch of the Tulsa Public Library is just a few blocks away from our house.  It is just across the street from Wright Eleme...

I have a pair of Northern Cardinals which have nested nearby, although I have not seen their nest. The male is a bright red while the femal...

The common Day Lily is a hardy perennial which can be grown nearly everywhere .   It spreads from tuberous roots and once established becom...

The Rear Facade of the Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Looking north to south.

Garden behind Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Looking West to East.

Last weekend Sue and I drove down to Houston to see our good friend Matt who is in the hospital there.  He has had some serious health prob...

I was stumped for a photo to fit the theme "Help" until my son David gave me  the perfect one.   I built a deck just behind my...

Doors to the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 913 S Boulder Avenue,  Tulsa, Oklahoma

One of the corners of the Tulsa Rose Garden is anchored by a bed of Knockout Shrub Roses surrounding an Arborvitae.