For our Holy Mother puja

Cold Christmas

... it's cold outside ...

Ice Storm #2

Ice and sky

Our ice-encrusted Corolla

... after the ice storm ...

... the last word in Solstice is ice ...

Two large kitty butts hanging out from a very small tree

Chee & LiPo under the tree

After sniffing, the tree was found suitable for sleeping under

Chee under the tree

View from my window this morning

Chee meets his new Christmas Rat

Friday afternoon at the park

Still hanging on ...

Li Po and Chee check out our rosemary Christmas tree

Last good Sunday for fishing ... Minshall Park, Tulsa

First Hard Freeze in Tulsa

Pistache tree, Hunter Park, Tulsa

Peggy's newly crocheted sweater

Red maple, Hunter Park, Tulsa

Minshall Park, Tulsa, late afternoon

sometimes a tree answers

What do I want
What am I really after
sometimes a tree answers.
 - Philip Whalen. Overtime: Selected Poems. Penguin Books. Kindle Edition.

Peak fall colors in Tulsa

On the banks of the Arkansas River

River Walk, Tulsa, OK

red and green

Red for Fall

... another view of fall ...

Early fall at Hunter Park, Tulsa OK

Early fall colors

... green ...

Self Protrait

... the sky before the storm ...

... now I'm 64 ...

no day for a picnic

gold leaf

Four Oaks, River Walk, Tulsa

first leaves of fall

Route 66, Tulsa

“East Meets West” sculpture by Robert Summers, Tulsa

Sky with Branches

Meeting place by the Arkansas River, Tulsa, OK

Branching out

Walker

Summer's End

 

That summer, many were gravely wounded or seriously ill. The old man helped in the little ways he could manage. And he began to practice total acceptance. “Life as it is,” he said when asked. He no longer voiced opinions for or against anything. The old man taught his great heart to love people, places, and things as they were; not as he might wish them to be. He lived one day at a time, doing the tasks that were in front of him without concerning himself with things beyond the scope of his understanding. – from The Old Man at Summer’s End by Rich Seeley

 

At Turkey Mountain Trailhead

On the banks of the Arkansas River