This time I’ll start with a song that was going through my head the whole time I was riding to Draper, around it, and back.
It reflects the prayer that has been on my heart for quite some time now. I sang or hummed it to myself, and stopped several times at various places where it felt like a good prayer chapel.
When I left the house, the sun was shining. Within ten minutes, this cloud cover blew up from the south. By the time I got to the Draper Lake reserve, this is what it looked like. The promenade heading into the lake area cuts across the rather large prairie you see in this image. The weather prediction is that the heavy cloud cover would collide with a cold front coming out of the northwest.
This is one of several art installations installed around the lake. On one tiny point that has no number designation, there is this welded mosquito sculpture that looks like an airplane mounted atop a pole and spinning freely to face into the wind. The bench is really nice old wood carved into what you see here. It was a really nice prayer chapel, too.
This picnic table is one of my favorite stops. It sits between Point 1 on the east, and the Cross Timbers Off-road Riding Area on the west. It’s one of the better prayer chapels out here, too. In the far background is another art installation. Sometimes I wonder just how much money OKC spent on this stuff. They aren’t bad art pieces, but it’s almost silly when you consider how many of the docks and such need upgrading.
This is just one of the many coves the bikeway passes. The waves didn’t come out well in the picture, but the water was very active because of a stiff southerly breeze, the same one that brought this heavy cloud cover into the area. The other thing is that the water level is still very low on the lake. It doesn’t seem the water control folks are in a hurry to build it back up.
This was a spot on the bikeway that simply caught my eye at the moment I passed. I’m using my cellphone camera and was wondering how stuff like this would turn out when the sky is so heavily overcast. I need to read up on it, because sometimes the images come out slightly fish-eyed and sometimes nice and flat.
The sky looks especially foreboding here. Love it.
I got drizzle all the way back home. Then partial clearing for a while. Later in the evening, the actual storm hit as the icy air came in from the northwest.