Author Archives: Granger Meador

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About Granger Meador

I am retired from employment and enjoy reading, technology, day hikes, art museums, and photography. My wife Wendy works in the Bartlesville Public Schools in northeast Oklahoma, but this blog is outside the scope of any employment.

Starting Summer in the Paris of the Plains

May 26, 2012 Kansas City Here I Come Friday was my 23rd commencement at Bartlesville High and I decided to launch my summer break by skipping town for Memorial Day weekend. But the forecast everywhere was in the 90s, too … Continue reading →

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Return to Roaring River

May 18, 2012 Another Friday off for an unused snow day = another day hike. The coolest place within a day’s round trip was the childhood source of my love for day hikes: Roaring River State Park in Missouri. So … Continue reading →

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Sunday Walk in Nature’s Cathedral

Sunday afternoon I took a walk in nature’s cathedral: the tall trees section of Bartlesville’s Pathfinder Parkway. Click here for a slideshow.

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Tulsa and Table Mound

Friday: Tulsa Wildflowers It was another three-day May weekend, made possible by unused snow days in the warmest winter on record. On Friday I went to Tulsa with my friend and colleague Betty Henderson. We had lunch down there and … Continue reading →

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A Loop at Lake Carl Blackwell

Friday, May 4, 2012 was one of the district’s unused snow days for the school year and classes were dismissed. My former piano teacher, Myra Schubert, had invited me to Bethany to see her current flock of pupils at her … Continue reading →

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