Big Bluestem Sunset

Took these pictures this evening while on the way home. The big bluestem is starting to get BIG! Just like the old saying, it gets as tall as a man on horseback. I'm gonna have to go find me a big one and measure it to see how tall a man is on horseback ;) Last year I found one that was 8 1/2 feet tall, so we'll see how the bluestem grew this year! Another name for it is Turkey Track (when it seeds out the tops look like a turkey track)that was what my great-grandpa used to call it(not the great-grandpa in the old picture).



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Camera Model : Canon Rebel T1I

F-Stop : F/9

Exposure Time : 1/160 sec.

ISO Speed : ISO-200

Focal Length : 34mm.

Camera Setting : Priority



Thanks for lookin'

Josie

Big Eyes......

This Yellow Grasshopper was out by my front porch this evening.

I still can't figure out what kind of grasshopper this is, so I'll just call it a yellow grasshopper!

Check out those BIG eyes.........

Now, here's the new thing that I'm gonna start doing, I'm going to list all of the settings that I used while taking this picture. So, bear with me as I try to learn to use this Canon camera!

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Camera model : Canon Rebel T1I

F-Stop : F/5.6

Exposure Time : 1/60 sec.

ISO Speed : ISO-400

Focal Length : 55mm.

White Balance : Auto

Camera Setting : Macro

Zoom Lens Used : 18-55mm.

Okay, I'm done with my boring camera stuff ;)

Thanks for lookin'

Josie

Oklahoma Thunderheads

I took this tonight when we were coming up out of Wild Hog Creek.

The storms went way south of us, but they made for some good pictures!

Here's a view looking back at Wild Hog creek.....

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Camera Model : Canon Rebel

Exposure Time : 1/50 sec.

F-Stop : f/5

ISO Speed : ISO-200

Focal Length : 41mm.

White Balance : Auto

Zoom Lens Used : 18-55mm.

Camera Setting : Priority

Thanks for lookin'

Josie

Storm Clouds

This is what it looked like out my back door last night.

A good Ol' Oklahoma thunder storm!

Complete with them old spooky lookin' rolling clouds

Gotta love Oklahoma Summers............

A Little Piece of Osage Co. History

This is the old Chapman & Barnard Ranch bunkhouse that was built in the early 1920's.

Maybe this was what it looked like back in the '20's, though they probably had barb-wire fence
instead of pipe.
How 'bout that big ol' porch? Lets have a closer look. The old bell stands ready to greet you be the gate.

But it could be used to call in the cowboys for dinner, from the barn that set's to the east of the Bunkhouse.

Here's a look at the cowboys who used to work here (and yes this is the Real Deal, no Paint Shop used!!)

See this Ol' Cowboy? Know who he is? That's my Great, Great Grandad, Ben Johnson Sr.! He used to work here and was the Ranch Foreman.

So there's your Osage Co. history lesson for today
Thanks for lookin' and Class Dismissed!!!
Josie
P.S. Long Live Cowboys & Cowgirls!!!

Riding around with a new Canon

Got this in today ....

My new Canon Rebel T1i digital camera

So, we went riding around this evening

looking for something to take a picture of.

Here's the results...

Along the road this was blooming....
Prairie Blazing Star

We stopped down on the creek and I took this picture of a Blue-Fronted Dancer.

On the way back to the house we saw this herd of buffalo

coming up out of the creek bottoms,

to spend the night on the prairie.

And to finish this day off, a beautiful Oklahoma sunset.

Thanks for looking and if anyone knows anything about Canon Rebels--Please share!!
Bare with me as I learn to take pics with this camera!
Josie

The night the Devil Ninja Red Wasp Chased Mama

This was our "Trill of the Day" for last Sunday.

Okay, so we got this HUGE red wasp nest

above our front door.

And let me tell ya these are the old dark red wasps, the ones that will chase ya around the house.

So, the other evening Mama was trying to kill these wasps so she could knock the nest down. After going through one can of Raid wasp spray, she came back into the house to get another.





When she walked out the back door, she saw this coming at her ( but he was flying :-)



I could hear her hollering and cussin',
but I didn't know what about.

Trust me, you don't want to know what she really called this wasp.

Lets just say it wasn't very nice!

She finally knocked him down
but she said he was still crawling across the carport trying to get her!
Like Dad always tells us
"I hope nuthin bad ever gets
a hole of ya"

And yes she did kill the Red wasps on the nest, knocked the nest down and killed the Devil wasp!

Victory!!!!!!!

We think it might be a Spider Wasp

or maybe some kind of burrowing wasp since it didn't come off of the

Red wasp nest above the door.

Ya know what I think it is?

It's a gen-u-ine Devil Ninja Red Wasp!

Oh, the glory of living in the country!

Hope mama's wasp chase made you laugh!

Josie

P.S. HA HA HA