Skywatch Friday - 12 February 2026 Edition

A Buddha sculpture at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Tam Bao Buddhist Temple

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Skywatch Friday - 5 February 2026 Edition

My view late in the afternoon of the sunset and the Arkansas River looking northwest from my office office on the 17th floor of a building in downtown Tulsa. I took hundred of such photos in the 19 years I worked there. I got pretty good at techniques for minimzing internal reflections from the windows.

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Skywatch Friday - 29 January 2026 Edition

Landscaping at Lafortune Park here in Tulsa a few years ago when we had no snow. We got lots of snow last week.

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Skywatch Friday - 22 January 2026 Edition

A sunrise view in midtown Tulsa back in 2016 when I still worked. For years I'd roll out of bed at 5:15 am and either go to the gym or go run outside. Get cleaned up and go to this Panera for breakfast when it was still dark-thirty o'clock in the morning. I'm retired and I think back on my diligence as I can pick and choose my favorite daylight hours to go exercise now. Fine, except I haven't taken a sunrise photo in a long time.

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Skywatch Friday - 15 January 2026 Edition

A photo from a school ski trip that my son Logan took to Breckinridge, Colorado in 2016. I'm stealing it for the SWF header this week. Son didn't go skiiing but he found lots to eat and drink while there. We loaded him up with cold weather gear and he didn't use any of it so I used for when I was still running. I think he had a good time. My wife and I were empty nesters for a week and we had a wonderful time. Of course we missed him. This is another photo that I had set to private so it is being exposed to the world for the very first time with this post.

Apparently Breckenridge has a yearly snow sculpture contest. Check this link for the 2026 edition.

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Skywatch Friday - 8 January 2026 Edition

A photo from a late January afternoon years ago when I worked in downtown Tulsa. One afternoon the sun was shining straight down the east west streets (which are oriented quite a bit off east and west since they were squared up the railroad tracks way back when in Tulsa.) The sun was low and we had a very nice yellowish orangish light shining almost horizontally onto the buildings. Sorry for the grainy photo and the internal reflection from the window that I shot through.

I notice that I had set this photo to "private" for some reason years ago so you folks are the first to see this photo, except for myself that is. Not that it is a very good photo.

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Skywatch Friday - Happy New Years 2026 Edition!!

Sunset on the Arkansas River as it passes through Tulsa.

I appreciate everyone's participation in 2025. I love the gentle corner of photoblogging on the internet. Let everybody else ragebait but we'll still be here showing off our photographs and leaving helpful comments with each other. I love it. I am wishing all of you a peaceful, healthy, rewarding, and prosperous 2026.

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