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	<<Be honest. What's your first impression. What do you think you see? Are you sure? The mind can so easily be deceived and mislead. I suspect many didn't have a chance to enjoy last year's rant because I was so late in getting it out. if you didn't, please do, I've included it below this year's rant. The streets of Pawhuska. Way before the (official) "Osage Reign of Terror.">>

<<Be honest. What's your first impression. What do you think you see? Are you sure? The mind can so easily be deceived and mislead. I suspect many didn't have a chance to enjoy last year's rant because I was so late in getting it out. if you didn't, please do, I've included it below this year's rant.

The streets of Pawhuska. Way before the (official) "Osage Reign of Terror.">>


	<<To start the year -- A couple snowy scenes from this winter past.>>


	<<We transplanted all these daffodils from Bartlesville years ago. This was only supposed to be a temporary home. But we never got around to moving them around the property. This picture comes no where close to doing them justice. They've become a local attraction. People drive by out of their way just to have a look. Vegetable garden flowers aren't expected to be showy, but there are exceptions. Here's chives and kale.>>

<<We transplanted all these daffodils from Bartlesville years ago. This was only supposed to be a temporary home. But we never got around to moving them around the property. This picture comes no where close to doing them justice. They've become a local attraction. People drive by out of their way just to have a look.

Vegetable garden flowers aren't expected to be showy, but there are exceptions. Here's chives and kale.>>


	<<Though not in the garden per se, prickly pear can be showy and the fruits can be harvested. Trish has enjoyed ;-) making prickly pear jam in the past. Me returning from battling my nemesis: wild blackberries. Vicious, merciless, heartless, soulless, invincible ......>>

<<Though not in the garden per se, prickly pear can be showy and the fruits can be harvested. Trish has enjoyed ;-) making prickly pear jam in the past.

Me returning from battling my nemesis: wild blackberries. Vicious, merciless, heartless, soulless, invincible ......>>


	<<Interesting summer clouds viewed from our deck.>>


	<<Every six months (on the solstice) we check to see if the politicians have screwed the world up so terribly as to knock the earth akilter. As long as the sun sets dead west on the solstice, we figure things can't be too bad ;-) Particularly brilliant burning bush this year.>>

<<Every six months (on the solstice) we check to see if the politicians have screwed the world up so terribly as to knock the earth akilter. As long as the sun sets dead west on the solstice, we figure things can't be too bad ;-)

Particularly brilliant burning bush this year.>>


	Trish and Jami took a quick jaunt to OKC late this fall to tour Bricktown. Trish relates: <<Bricktown Canal, waiting for the water taxi. One figure on the Oklahoma Land Rush sculpture. We saw this while on the water taxi ride in Bricktown.>>

Trish and Jami took a quick jaunt to OKC late this fall to tour Bricktown. Trish relates:

<<Bricktown Canal, waiting for the water taxi.

One figure on the Oklahoma Land Rush sculpture. We saw this while on the water taxi ride in Bricktown.>>

The Birds!
	<<We just had one of our infrequent blackbird invasions. Fortunately they don't stay long. It can be very eerie -- at one point it seemed like the whole sky was darkened. We don't have the photo/video equipment to do it anywhere near justice. Eat your heart out Alfred H!>>

It's fascinating watching a truly huge flock of birds fly. The synchronization, the choreography, the almost acting as one. Constantly changing, warping, meshing with geometrical precision. All but disappearing in the wink of an eye and then, as if by magic, suddenly reappearing. The videos below are but a pale imitation of what it was really like.