Over the past couple of weeks I have been riding pretty hard, and while it had it’s fun parts, it also kept me from stopping to take many pictures. Today I caught up on the shooting. This first one is my prayer chapels inside the Eagle Lake Park in Del City, OK.
Wednesday I took a 35-mile ride and this was about the only inspiring image that caught my eye. This is a bridge across the drainage in Nichols Hills, a ritzy suburb of OKC. Their trail is more or less part of the county trail system, this one running along Grand Boulevard. But the trail dumps you out onto the very busy NE 63rd Street, the southern boundary of this suburb, and OKC never bothered to build an off-street trail connecting this to the Katy Trail. So I had to ride a couple of miles in heavy traffic eastward to the other part of Grand Boulevard.
This was from today, with our overcast skies varying later to partly cloudy. In the background is that huge feed mill still running in Capitol Hill district. This is just one of those views that caught my attention.
This (below) is one of several parks along the River Trail system. This one typically has folks sitting in cars or one of the benches during cooler weather, but isn’t used too awful much during the heat of summer. OKC Parks and Recreation doesn’t seem to understand that benches in the shade of trees get used more.
The clouds are what got my attention in this next shot. This is a view across Wheeler Park toward downtown OKC. This park is really old, though it saw major upgrades during the past decade. People actually use this for weddings and such during cooler weather.
This is one of the few flowers visible this time of year, and the only flowering trees to blossom so late in the summer. These things are trumpet-shaped and tend to droop.
You know me …. I HAD to find out what that tree is. Aha! It appears to be a burgundy desert willow and it can grow in your area quite well.
Thanks, Linda.