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    Posted: June/16/2012 at 19:44
The tranquil nature of a rocky stream
softly singing gentle music
for all who happen by
and wonder at the rhythm



pausing here and there to rest
in quiet pools
before tomorrows journey onward
to the sea and back again  
 


Edited by Alan Robertson - June/16/2012 at 23:56
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote stickbow46 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/16/2012 at 22:59
Nice pics Alan Excellent
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Great poem as well!
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Thanks.
Hoped you might like it.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alan Robertson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/17/2012 at 07:35
The pics were taken last week near my home in Osage County, OK.


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That looks like Salt Creek near Shidler.
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Is that where you're from, originally?
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"It's a small world, but I'd hate to paint it." - Steven Wright
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Ok, 3_tens...
May have figured out how you could recognize  the photos...
is this one a little closer to home?


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Nice pics, Alan!
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I am not that old but Bob Wills played there a lot.

 


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I don't know if any of the rest of you caught on, or not, but the pics (above) were from out there in the woods somewhere and right away, here comes 3_tens who knew exactly where the pics were taken and he's not even from around there and it sure as hell is not in a touristy area and is off the beaten path in the thinly- populated, largest county in Oklahoma, which is pretty close to in the middle of nowhere.

Amazing!
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tens is a skinny-dipping connoisseur. He knows every swimming hole within a 400 mile radius of OKC.
 
Nice pix, Alan.
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This area is wide open prairie. 2-3 trees is not a forest. Starting with Main Street


When Alan says "off the beaten path in the thinly- populated" Population is mainly scattered cattle.










This area has peculiar identifiable rock formations.





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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alan Robertson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/21/2012 at 16:03
Wow! Great pics 3_tens and many thanks for the views.
That's main street of the town near where I was raised and where I went to school, obviously taken before they roll the street up at 4:30. The "One Arm Bandit..." logo on the side of the building references the highly colorful local, John Payne, who has been named the "Rodeo Act of the Year" about a dozen times... many of you may have caught his act before.

3_tens said:
"This area has peculiar identifiable rock formations."
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Not the least of which are the ubiquitous stacked stone fence corners and gate posts and such...




(rock fence photos courtesy: Gary Olson,  http://www.retirementinvestmentadvisors.com/ )

I know they call Montana- Big Sky country, but this is what I always knew as the real big sky...




You do start to get into some trees, off to the southeast...




Edited by Alan Robertson - June/21/2012 at 16:40
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Originally posted by Alan Robertson Alan Robertson wrote:

I don't know if any of the rest of you caught on, or not, but the pics (above) were from out there in the woods somewhere and right away, here comes 3_tens who knew exactly where the pics were taken and he's not even from around there and it sure as hell is not in a touristy area and is off the beaten path in the thinly- populated, largest county in Oklahoma, which is pretty close to in the middle of nowhere.

Amazing!


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When a gift is given with true sincerity, the blessing will be returned ten fold.
Just as the gift of a tranquil stream.
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This is just not what I had in mind for a big beaver night clubSad
 
 
 
Edited for grammer, because as we all know, grammer be imporetint.
Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.
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Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

This is just not what I had in mind for a big beaver night clubSad
 
 
 
Edited for grammer, because as we all know, grammer be imporetint.
As 3_tens noted, Bob Wills was a regular performer at the club, located on Big Beaver Creek, along with Johnnie Lee Wills, Leon McAuliffe and many others from that era. The club was was known far and wide in it's heyday.
Actor Rance Howard was raised very close to this location.

I do not know who memorialized the location, but the picture does have Freudian qualities...
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