Category Archives: travel
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
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
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
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
The Trails at Devil’s Den & Crystal Bridges
Today was the first outing for my new compact superzoom camera, a Canon PowerShot SX 260 HS. I wanted to shoot some nice scenery I’d viewed before in a different season of the year, so I opted to drive three … Continue reading
