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Topic: The tranquil nature of a rocky stream
Posted By: Alan Robertson
Subject: The tranquil nature of a rocky stream
Date 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  
 


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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"



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Posted By: stickbow46
Date Posted: June/16/2012 at 22:59
Nice pics Alan Excellent

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Pearls of Wisdom are Heard not Spoken


Posted By: billyburl2
Date Posted: June/17/2012 at 00:24
Great poem as well!

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If it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them?


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/17/2012 at 07:17
Thanks.
Hoped you might like it.


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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/17/2012 at 07:35
The pics were taken last week near my home in Osage County, OK.




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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: 3_tens
Date Posted: June/18/2012 at 12:04
That looks like Salt Creek near Shidler.

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Folks ain't got a sense of humor no more. They don't laugh they just get sore.

Need to follow the rules. Just hard to determine which set of rules to follow
Now the rules have changed again.


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/18/2012 at 15:41
Is that where you're from, originally?

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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: June/18/2012 at 15:44
Big Grin

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Visit the Ed Show


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/18/2012 at 15:47
"It's a small world, but I'd hate to paint it." - Steven Wright

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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/19/2012 at 20:59
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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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: June/19/2012 at 22:17
Nice pics, Alan!

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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: 3_tens
Date Posted: June/20/2012 at 09:45

I am not that old but Bob Wills played there a lot.

 




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Folks ain't got a sense of humor no more. They don't laugh they just get sore.

Need to follow the rules. Just hard to determine which set of rules to follow
Now the rules have changed again.


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/20/2012 at 21:50
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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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: jonoMT
Date Posted: June/21/2012 at 10:20
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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Posted By: 3_tens
Date Posted: June/21/2012 at 12:37
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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Folks ain't got a sense of humor no more. They don't laugh they just get sore.

Need to follow the rules. Just hard to determine which set of rules to follow
Now the rules have changed again.


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date 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...




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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: June/22/2012 at 07:51
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!


Our friend Lile knows his way around OK quite well, due in no small part to his real estate profession.

He'll claim this is due to his extra sensory Jedi mind powers, but I know that's not true, because he keeps insisting I'm about to buy him a new Cooper M21 Jackson Varminter .204 with spooky wood, and even after some deep soul searching, I just can't envision that happening anytime soon.


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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: 3_tens
Date Posted: June/22/2012 at 11:12
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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Folks ain't got a sense of humor no more. They don't laugh they just get sore.

Need to follow the rules. Just hard to determine which set of rules to follow
Now the rules have changed again.


Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: June/22/2012 at 12:01
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.


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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.


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/22/2012 at 15:31
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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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"


Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: June/22/2012 at 15:58
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Beaver.jpg">
You have me confused with something else.

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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.


Posted By: Alan Robertson
Date Posted: June/23/2012 at 07:52
Beltfed sez:
"You have me confused with something else"
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Cottonwood's not your cup o' tea... or, just what do you mean? Hmmmm?


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"Garg'n uair dhuisgear"



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