Big Okie Thunderheads

Took these the other night when some storms went north of us.....

They were gorgeous in person!!!!

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Josie of the Prairie

Drip Drip Drop Little April Shower......

Here's the morning's pictures!

I thought those pictures would be worth posting on here! ;-)

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 Josie

What I dream about this time of year....

It's the dead of winter right now, 33 degrees, north wind whipping outside and patches of snow from last night's little storm.  And right now all I want to see is the smallest blade of green grass, maybe a tiny bud on the elm tree by the front gate, just something that gives me the slightest hope that we haven't been moved to Alaska in the middle of the night.  But, nothing, no green grass, no tiny bud on the elm tree, nothing at all!  So, my only hope is to go through my pictures and find ones like this:

Ahhhh, beautiful!  Let's see another picture of GREEN

Middle of May I think it was, an evening thunder storm was rollin' across the prairie.  Speaking of thunder storms,

June thunder heads, but ya know what really caught my eye?  This...

 

See the T and the S?  You get it don't ya?  T S stands for Thunder Storm! 

Spring means fires on the prairie--controlled fires that is.

And BIG smoke!

And after the fire, the bluestem starts to grow and in July and August, it can get up to 11 feet tall!

And yes, I'm even ready to see grasshoppers again!

This was George, we never figured out was kind of grasshopper George was, so he remains the Mystery Yellow Grasshopper named George! ;) 

And with the coming of Spring, comes Ol' Tom out strutting around looking for a girlfriend....he was none too successful on this go-round!

And in Spring these little critters start popping up every where...

Come  May or June, the Whippoorwills come back and sing their song up and down the creek...

Once it get's good and hot, Spiderman loves his summer baths 

Can't you just see his joy?  He loves it!!

Oh, and one more picture that is Summer out and out,

Mmmmmmm, a Summer Supper!:)

So there, I'm done reminiscing about those beautiful, warm, sunshiney(sorry, I'm making up words!!) days as my fishing pole stands by my tackle box in the barn, my favorite pair of flip-flops lay in the floor of my closet as I set and dream about warm summer days!  Oh boy, am I getting dramatic!!hahaha

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Josie

My Best Pictures of 2009--Part 1

Since this is the last day of 2009, I thought I would post some of my best pictures that I took this year.

Let's start out with my favorite sunset pictures:

Here's:

Summer Sunset

Big Blue Stem Sunset

The Last One Standing

The Enemy of every Horse

Cross in the Sky

Amarillo Sky

Spider webs across the Oklahoma Prairie

A Little over the Hill

Way over the Hill

Fingers of Light

Stretching on forever

Lookin' down Sand Creek

Tallgrass Prairie Bunkhouse

Porch of the T.G.P Bunkhouse

T.G.P. sign after snow storm

So there's part 1 of my favorite pictures for 2009!
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Josie

It's Rainin', it's Pourin'

Last night, we had a round of rain come through, so this morning I tucked my jeans into my boots, hunted for 20 minutes for my rain coat and then remembered that it was in the Blazer that was parked out under the barn.

Finally I found my OSU umbrella and outside into the rain I went.  

This was what I saw:

Carport was flooded because of this:

Around to the porch I went,

Old Glory was a little damp, but she's still wavin'!

Mick came out of the dog box..

But Blazer didn't...

The horses don't care in less I'm carrying a coffee can of feed...

 

Food, did somebody say FOOD??

Yeah, got your attention that time, huh?

The rain flooded the horse trap, too,

and I had a pond under my porch..

From the look of these clouds and the sound of thunder, I bet we'll have more than 2 inches before the day is over.

Oh well, rainy days are good for Blogging, I think I set a new world record, 2 blogs in one day!

*Update*  1:45PM.  1 1/2 inches of rain since 12:30PM

 

There is a river running through my carport.....

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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

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Josie