Pear, No Apple

Rocky

Just Us?

Post Oak Lake, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Dreams

"The Dream Keeper" Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. --Langston Hughes

Sunset and Wheat Field #2

Images made of a sunset behind a field of winter wheat along with Frederick, OK on the horizon.

Winter Wheat

A field of winter wheat just outside Frederick, Tillman County, Oklahoma.

A Landscape

“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk.” --N. Scott Momaday

Watching the Sun Set

"Sunset Thinking" by Marilyn Lott Do you ever watch the sunset And just sit and think about things Just you and the sky and darkness Giving your thoughts some wings Perhaps you've got some troubles And don't know what to do Or you just plain need to get away To spend a little time with you

Toward the Sun

"Keep your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." ---Walt Whitman

Down the Road

Stopping By One Day

Here It Is

I went to Norman. It was supposed to be. But, I wasn't there. Was it to be her? I hoped it would be. I sure wanted it to be. I tried to build. I tried to build. I tried to build. It couldn't be. It just wouldn't be. I went to Ft. Worth. It was almost there. It wanted to be. I went on a little north. It sure wasn't there. I lost it there. I lost all there. I wandered lost, there. You found me there. I'm trying to be. Is it here? If I let it be.

Still is the Night

Lines

Lines say something. They define things. They curve or run straight. They are thin or thick, narrow or wide. I follow lines. I stay within the lines. Sometimes, I get out of line. I don't like to stand in lines. Some lines intersect. Some lines bisect. Some lines run parallel. Some lead this way or that. These lines tell a story.

Once

Sticks in the Water

End of Day

Pebbles

Pebbles on the Shore ------- A lot of people see SW Oklahoma as simple, ordinary, and boring; maybe most people feel that way; I can’t say for sure. I’ve lived in SW Oklahoma my entire life. It has defined who I am more than anything or anyone other than the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has molded and shaped me in the context of this land. In view of that, I suppose I’m simple, ordinary, and boring, too; I hold that to be a good thing. So, while many see SW Oklahoma as simple, ordinary, and boring, I see it as honest, peaceful, and beautiful. It’s my home, it fills me with joy, and I love it. ... “I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:12-13. (NLT)

Randomly

Clouds Afire

"You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind. The winds are your messengers; flames of fire are your servants." Psalm 104:3b--4 (NLT)

Panther Creek

Panther Creek is a straight creek centrally located in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge north of Lawton/Ft. Sill, OK. Canopy cover is provided mostly by Post Oak, Willow, and Cottonwood trees. The creek-bottom consists of loose sand, cobbles and gravel . In a few places the substrate is granite bedrock