Tulsa's fabulous River Parks Trails system. Great bike trails that go on for miles and miles on both sides of the Arkansas River.
Northeast Oklahoma's long autumn continues. We've had a few cold spells but lately the temps have been in the 40's at night and low 70's during the day. Perfect weather as far as I am concerned. Our trees are still putting on a color show as well.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 13 November 2025 Edition
Tulsa's fabulous River Parks Trails system. Great bike trails that go on for miles and miles on both sides of the Arkansas River.
Northeast Oklahoma's long autumn continues. We've had a few cold spells but lately the temps have been in the 40's at night and low 70's during the day. Perfect weather as far as I am concerned. Our trees are still putting on a color show as well.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 6 November 2025 Edition
Northeast Oklahoma's long beautiful autumn is in full swing. Cool nights, warm days, I'll take it forever.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 30 October 2025 Edition
New office building going up close to where we live. Captured late in the day with the evening sun coming in flat.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 23 October 2025 Edition
I love autumn even though here in Oklahoma we don't get the pretty colors with the maples like other areas. We get the rust colors from the oaks, some yellow colors and maybe a little better color from invasive trees. The grass turns from green to brown and then gray for the winter. Plus as you can tell from the photo, lots of our woods are pretty scraggily looking. Tornadoes and very high winds will do that! I still love fall though. Warm days, cool nights, dry weather. Yep, sign me up.
And I like looking at your fall photos or your spring photos if you are in the southern hemisphere.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Skywatch Friday - Pumpkin Patch Edition 2025
A local Tulsa, Oklahoma "Pumpkin Patch" where you can buy pumpkins, check out the little zoo of farm animals, maybe get a wagon ride and go through a corn maze. When our son was little they were a lot of fun. Always great for taking photos.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 9 October 2025 Edition
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It's Thursday, it's Skywatch Friday time. October is a great month for sky shots in the northern hemisphere. The sun is lower, the leaves are changing, the temperatures are cooler. Sign me up. Of course the little secret is that it is spring in the southern hemisphere as well!
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 2 October 2025 Edition
This is a church in Idaho Falls, Idaho where my parents used to live. I always loved the trees in the Fall just before they turned color, paired with the low sun and blue sky.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Skywatch Friday - First Skywatch of Fall 2025 Edition
Earlier this week we had the first day of northern hemisphere fall. Fall is my favorite time of year and it lasts a long time, especially with global warming. We'll have mild days going into early December, which is kind of ridiculous, but I'll take it. I love the warm days and cool nights. It gets cool enough long enough and the snakes go into their dens to brumate, and the spiders go away as well.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 18 September 2025 Edition
A photo of a partial lunar eclipse from ten years ago.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 11 September 2025 Edition
A repurposed warehouse on the south side of downtown Tulsa repurposed into retail space.
Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 4 September 2025 Edition
This gigantic soda pop bottle is at Pops located just west of Arcadia, Oklahoma at combo gas station, pop store, and diner named Pops. It's a modern day attraction that I generally stop at when I'm in the area because they have every kind of soda you can think of. My favorite is generally blackberry. Have you ever been there?
I appreciate your participation in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 28 August 2025 Edition
Those of you familiar with the Denver Airport know that it is way out in the middle of nowhere. It also has some great skies. I captured this on a flight with a layover in Denver some years back. I took it through the window of the jet I was on. It looks like a big storm was coming!!
I appreciate you participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 21 August 2025 Edition
A sunset from Dad's house in Idaho Falls, Idaho during a visit there some years back. There were several forest fires going on in the area at the time. They make for hazy skies during the day but decent sunset photos.
I appreciate you participating in Skywatch Friday.
Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.
Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 14 August 2025
This is the Teton Mountains of Wyoming from the Idaho or west side of the Mountain. Not quite as spectacular as from Jackson Hole on the east side, but still pretty nice. Plus since southeast Idaho is pretty flat you can see the mountains from quite a ways away. I could see them from my parents driveway in Idaho Falls, Idaho which was at least 60 miles away. My parents are gone now so I don't get up there to see the sights and I miss it.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 7 August 2025 Edition
This is a sunrise from years ago as shot from the driveway of my house several years. Just goes to show you don't need to drive miles and miles for Skywatch Friday shots.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 31 July 2025 Edition
The Arkansas River as it flows through Tulsa as it looked ten years ago. Nowadays things are spruced up and it doesn't look so scruffy. The good thing about scruffy is there are lots less people around. It's like a zoo on Tulsa's riverfront now during peak times on the weekend. To a retired guy like me who can go anytimes he wants, it still very nice.
I'm going to be a little out of touch the next couple weeks so I won't be visiting blogs as much as I usually do.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 24 July 2025 Edition
A view across the Arkansas River to downtown Tulsa one hot July day years ago.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 17 July 2025 Edition
A hot day in rural Oklahoma years ago with big fluffy clouds, blue sky, and high humidity.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 10 July 2025 Edition
Clouds over Tulsa's Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area in the middle of the summer.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 3 July 2025 Edition
Cows grazing under a big sky in western Oklahoma on land owned by other members of my wife's family.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 26 June 2025 Edition
A view of the Na Pali Coast of Kauai years ago when the family went on a Hawaiian Cruise. The Hawaiian Islands are gorgeous.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 19 June 2025 Edition
This is a scene from a 5K run that I participated in years ago sponsored by the Muskogee Creek Nation Tribe at their headquarters in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. If you watched the show "Rez Dogs" most of the scenes were shot in and around Okmulgee. I had just turned 60 years old a few months before this and I ended up winning my age group and got a cool coffee mug for that athletic feat. It would be rude for you to ask if there were any other runners in my age group.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 12 June 2025 Edition
A view looking northeast across the Arkansas River to downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 5 June 2025 Edition
From a drone shot from my backyard a year ago. Then, like now, we were going inundated with rain which is great if it doesn't cause problems like flooding, but can also result in pretty decent skywatch shots.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 29 May 2025 Edition
Wakiki Beach scene sunset year ago in Hawaii. People in Hawaii sure love their skies and sunsets and if there is a good one, they grab their cameras and phones and go take pictures. I don't blame them. My week there years ago afforded lots of opportunities for great sky and landscape shots. What a beautiful place.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 23 May 2025 Edition
A view of the sky, Pacific Ocean, and one of the island from our balcony on a cruise ship near Hawaii years ago.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 15 May 2025 Edition
A beach somewhere on Oahu in Hawaii. Hawaii is a magical place.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Skywatch Friday- 1 May 2025 Edition
A view, from my pre-retirement days, from my office window in downtown Tulsa looking northwest. The river is the Arkansas River that starts in Colorado and winds its way through Kansas,Oklahoma, and Arkansas on its way to meet up with the Mississippi River.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 24 April 2025 Edition
A vintage windmill at Woolaroc, the former ranch of Frank Phillips, the founder of oil giant Phillips Petroleum. The property is now a museum and wildlife refuge administered by a private foundation.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 10 April 2025 Edition
Another week, another round of Skywatch Friday. I appreciate everybody's participation!! I took the above photo back in April 2015 and I have no memory of where I took it. I am guessing that it is at Oxley Nature Center in Tulsa. I still like it though.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 3 April 2025 Edition
A view from Woolaroc, an old oilman's art museum and ranch in northeast Oklahoma now open to the public.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 27 March 2025
This is what our front yard used to look like. We had two pear trees in the front yard for years. They are not Bradford Pears, I forget what kind they are. Pretty but when they bloomed they stunk plus they were bad for the allergies. I remember the first time that my Forest Ranger dad visited us in our new home. We picked him up at the airport and when we pulled into the driveway he said, "Those are two crappy looking trees, Alan." (You can tell where I got my silver tongue from right.) The problem is that the trees are weak. They branch a lot and the branches are weak points. They eventually split apart. We still haven't replaced them yet. I'm good with that, the grass does better without the trees.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 20 March 2025 Edition
Spring means it's time to visit the local dog parks again and get acquainted and reacquainted with the various dogs and owners that are out and about enjoying the nice weather before it gets hot.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 13 March 2025 Edition
This week's header photo is of a storm from a long time ago. I forget the circumstances but I love the photo.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Skywatch Friday - Ozark Mountain Sunset
This week's header shot is from fifteen years ago. A sunset view from our cabin in Branson, Missouri home of Silver Dollar City. When our son was younger we went once a year or so. Lots of rides, lots of stuff to see. We haven't been back in a while.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 27 February 2025
The Petroleum Club building in downtown Tulsa from back in 2016.
I'm still under the weather from my full knee replacment last week. I'm making good progress on recovery. I apologize but I won't be able to visit too many blogs in the near future.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 20 February 2025 Edition
This is a locomotive parked as an exhibit at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. It spent it's working life deep in the forests of Southeast Oklahoma pulling lumber trains for a logging company. This photo was taken ten years ago, since then, a group of retired railroad company employees have taken it over and really spruced it up. They are looking for a new home for it. I love old train stuff, what can I say! I worked for a short time for the oil and gas sub of Union Pacific Railroad. They still send me their railroad calendar every year and I love it.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 13 February 2025
Another photo from yesteryear, February 2015. A reminder that back in the day when I worked I used to run the trails at Turkey Mountain at night. I carried a headlamp and a hand light and ran all over that mountain for miles in the dark. There were a few times where I didn't know where I was but I never got lost! (figure that one out). I tripped and fell a few times which hurt.
I have knee surgery coming up early next week (falling on the mountain at night didn't help.) I am preparing next week's SWF post this week so it should be good to go at the usual time next Thursday, the 20th.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 6 February 2025 Edition
Son Logan participating in Therapeutic Horseback Riding at a facility about a half hour north of Tulsa. He did this for years and got pretty good at riding. We did this every Saturday morning for a long time. I was kind of the unofficial photogrpher for the outfit, which is no longer in business. I took photos of the other kids and gave them to their parents.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 30 January 2025 Edition
A blast from the past. January 2012. I was still working on the 17th floor of a Tulsa high rise building with a great view looking west. I took lots of skywatch photos up there during the winter months. During the summer it didn't get dark until late plus we had daylight savings time so I wasn't stay up there that long. I hope you are not disappointed in my lack of dedication.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 23 January 2025 Edition
Here is an example of a "front porch skywatch photo" that I took ten years ago. I'm still taking them today. Lots of participants take them. Good skies are where you find them is my motto.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 16 January 2025 Edition
A January scene from Washington Irving Park in Bixby, Oklahoma. Supposedly he camped overnight at or near there in the autumn of 1832 when he toured what is now Oklahoma.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Skywatch Friday - 9 January 2025 Edition
A rural crossroad south of Tulsa some years ago as the sun was going down and car appeared.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Skywatch Friday - New Year 2025 Edition
Welcome back and a Happy New Year 2025 to everyone! I appreciate everybody's participation and love that skywatch, like all the other photoblogger memes is in a gentle corner of the internet. I love how everybody is so welcoming and supportive of each other.
The photo is from my archives and shows cows grazing in a pecan orchard under a not bad Oklahoma January winter sky.
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