The caption on the back:
THE BEAUTIFUL SKYLINE OF OKLAHOMA CITY
THE STATE CAPITAL OF OKLAHOMA
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Wednesday Postcard Blogging
Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:
THE BEAUTIFUL SKYLINE OF OKLAHOMA CITY
THE STATE CAPITAL OF OKLAHOMA
The caption on the back:
THE BEAUTIFUL SKYLINE OF OKLAHOMA CITY
THE STATE CAPITAL OF OKLAHOMA
Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day Greetings and Monday Photo Blogging
Hope everyone is having/going to have a safe and relaxing Memorial Day. (Nothing special planned here . . . I'm probably going to spend most of the day taking care of some odd bits of housework and maybe running an errand or two.)
Last Friday I spent some time visiting with Tom and Emelia (my brother and niece, for anyone who hadn't been keeping up with my previous blog on Bravenet) and I took a few pictures while I was there:
I'll be adding all of the pictures I took to one of my Yahoo! photo albums sometime soon (probably sometime this week).
Last Friday I spent some time visiting with Tom and Emelia (my brother and niece, for anyone who hadn't been keeping up with my previous blog on Bravenet) and I took a few pictures while I was there:
I'll be adding all of the pictures I took to one of my Yahoo! photo albums sometime soon (probably sometime this week).
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Wednesday Postcard Blogging
Is everyone else enjoying the postcards as much as I am? If so, please leave a comment and let me know. (Or send me an e-mail if you'd prefer to keep your comments private for any reason.)
I've been having such a good time with them that I've starting looking for other postcard sites and bookmarking them so I can visit them later. I've also added the ones that I've visited so far to my list of links in the sidebar (scroll all the way down to the bottom) and I'll add the other ones once I've had a chance to check them out. Most of the sites I've found so far have motel postcards from the 50s and 60s, but I've also found a gallery of restaurant and diner postcards, as well as a weblog devoted to postcards and pictures from older malls and shopping centers.
Anyway . . . on to today's postcard:
The caption on the back:
OKLAHOMA BUFFALO
Buffalo at one time roamed the plains of Oklahoma in great herds. They provided the food, clothing and homes for many of the Indian tribes. The buffalo are now protected on state preserves and private ranches.
I've been having such a good time with them that I've starting looking for other postcard sites and bookmarking them so I can visit them later. I've also added the ones that I've visited so far to my list of links in the sidebar (scroll all the way down to the bottom) and I'll add the other ones once I've had a chance to check them out. Most of the sites I've found so far have motel postcards from the 50s and 60s, but I've also found a gallery of restaurant and diner postcards, as well as a weblog devoted to postcards and pictures from older malls and shopping centers.
Anyway . . . on to today's postcard:
The caption on the back:
OKLAHOMA BUFFALO
Buffalo at one time roamed the plains of Oklahoma in great herds. They provided the food, clothing and homes for many of the Indian tribes. The buffalo are now protected on state preserves and private ranches.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Too Much Noise
Pet peeves of the week (so far--I may be able to come up with some more before the week is over):
Parents who turn their children loose in stores, restaurants, malls, etc., and ignore them while they behave like wild animals.
Last Saturday I went to one of the local hardware stores to pick up a couple of things, and while I was there I saw a couple of kids--a girl about eight or nine and a brother one or two years younger--chasing each other around the store, squealing and talking loudly, and generally annoying everyone in the immediate vicinity (and it's not a big store, so you couldn't help but notice them). I overheard several of the employees talking about them while I was doing my shopping, so I think they must have been causing problems for a little while before I got there. One employee said he saw the brother take a hammer off of one of the displays and pound on the floor with it. Where was their mother while all of this was going on? Shopping in another part of the store and not paying any attention to her kids, as far as I could tell.
(Eventually their mother did catch up with them and get them under control--I saw her headed toward the front of the store with both of them and a third child in tow--but I still wonder if she decided to discipline them on her own or if one of the employees had to ask her to do it.)
Anyone who thinks that whatever he's listening to on his car stereo is so incredibly cool that he MUST share it with everyone within five miles of his car.
It's bad enough when someone who does this lives in my neighborhood (right around the corner, in fact) and I get to listen to his music (and I use the term very loosely--all I can hear is a loud thump-thump-thump) several times a week, sometimes in the middle of the night. It's worse when I get to hear it coming from a car close to me when I'm stopped at a red light. Last Sunday, though, I got to hear it at the drive-through at the local Whataburger.
The guy who pulled in right behind me had his stereo cranked up as loud as it would go, and he only turned it off long enough to turn in his order. After that, he turned it up again, and I got to listen to my car windows rattle while I was waiting on my food. I'm sure the Whataburger employees weren't real thrilled about having to listen to it, either.
(I'm pretty sure Oklahoma City has a city ordinance that deals with noise problems like this. Why isn't it being enforced more often?)
Parents who turn their children loose in stores, restaurants, malls, etc., and ignore them while they behave like wild animals.
Last Saturday I went to one of the local hardware stores to pick up a couple of things, and while I was there I saw a couple of kids--a girl about eight or nine and a brother one or two years younger--chasing each other around the store, squealing and talking loudly, and generally annoying everyone in the immediate vicinity (and it's not a big store, so you couldn't help but notice them). I overheard several of the employees talking about them while I was doing my shopping, so I think they must have been causing problems for a little while before I got there. One employee said he saw the brother take a hammer off of one of the displays and pound on the floor with it. Where was their mother while all of this was going on? Shopping in another part of the store and not paying any attention to her kids, as far as I could tell.
(Eventually their mother did catch up with them and get them under control--I saw her headed toward the front of the store with both of them and a third child in tow--but I still wonder if she decided to discipline them on her own or if one of the employees had to ask her to do it.)
Anyone who thinks that whatever he's listening to on his car stereo is so incredibly cool that he MUST share it with everyone within five miles of his car.
It's bad enough when someone who does this lives in my neighborhood (right around the corner, in fact) and I get to listen to his music (and I use the term very loosely--all I can hear is a loud thump-thump-thump) several times a week, sometimes in the middle of the night. It's worse when I get to hear it coming from a car close to me when I'm stopped at a red light. Last Sunday, though, I got to hear it at the drive-through at the local Whataburger.
The guy who pulled in right behind me had his stereo cranked up as loud as it would go, and he only turned it off long enough to turn in his order. After that, he turned it up again, and I got to listen to my car windows rattle while I was waiting on my food. I'm sure the Whataburger employees weren't real thrilled about having to listen to it, either.
(I'm pretty sure Oklahoma City has a city ordinance that deals with noise problems like this. Why isn't it being enforced more often?)
Monday, May 21, 2007
Monday Photo Blogging
Sorry for being a day late on posting new pictures . . . I spent much of the afternoon yesterday trying to clear out one of my flower beds, and by the time I decided to quit for the day, I was hot, tired and cranky and not in the mood for posting anything.
I also spent some time yesterday setting up my new camera (finally!) and taking a few test pictures, and so far I'm very happy with it. There were one or two controls I couldn't figure out that weren't fully explained in the owner's manual, but the Kodak website has some great tutorials that told me what I needed to know. My only "complaint" so far is that the LCD screen is impossible to see when I'm taking pictures outside and the sun is out, but I'm sure that's a fairly common complaint with most digital cameras.
I did, however, have a bigger complaint about the rechargeable batteries I bought. I assumed (incorrectly, I discovered) that they were fully charged when I took them out of the package, so I was very surprised when I started getting a "low power" signal from my camera after taking only nine pictures. There was nothing about this particular problem in the instruction booklet, so I did a search on Google and finally found a page on the manufacturer's website that said that rechargeable batteries aren't fully charged at the factory and need to be fully charged before the first use. Seems to me that information that basic should be included in the instruction booklet, so I e-mailed the manufacturer and politely requested that they consider adding it to future printings of the booklet.
They wrote back today and assured me that the information in question is included on all rechargeable battery packaging. I checked mine again and finally found the phrase "charge batteries before using" in the upper right corner of the back of the package, in small white print against a black background--in other words, it was printed in a place, size and style that made it easy to miss. (I pointed that out in my reply, but I'm not sure that it will make any difference.)
Anyway . . . here are three pictures I took of my peach tree, which is loaded with fruit (and in desperate need of trimming/pruning after the peaches are all gone):
I also spent some time yesterday setting up my new camera (finally!) and taking a few test pictures, and so far I'm very happy with it. There were one or two controls I couldn't figure out that weren't fully explained in the owner's manual, but the Kodak website has some great tutorials that told me what I needed to know. My only "complaint" so far is that the LCD screen is impossible to see when I'm taking pictures outside and the sun is out, but I'm sure that's a fairly common complaint with most digital cameras.
I did, however, have a bigger complaint about the rechargeable batteries I bought. I assumed (incorrectly, I discovered) that they were fully charged when I took them out of the package, so I was very surprised when I started getting a "low power" signal from my camera after taking only nine pictures. There was nothing about this particular problem in the instruction booklet, so I did a search on Google and finally found a page on the manufacturer's website that said that rechargeable batteries aren't fully charged at the factory and need to be fully charged before the first use. Seems to me that information that basic should be included in the instruction booklet, so I e-mailed the manufacturer and politely requested that they consider adding it to future printings of the booklet.
They wrote back today and assured me that the information in question is included on all rechargeable battery packaging. I checked mine again and finally found the phrase "charge batteries before using" in the upper right corner of the back of the package, in small white print against a black background--in other words, it was printed in a place, size and style that made it easy to miss. (I pointed that out in my reply, but I'm not sure that it will make any difference.)
Anyway . . . here are three pictures I took of my peach tree, which is loaded with fruit (and in desperate need of trimming/pruning after the peaches are all gone):
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Wednesday Postcard Blogging
Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:
GREETINGS FROM OKLAHOMA
Top--Oklahoma State Capitol
Bottom--Will Rogers Memorial
The caption on the back:
GREETINGS FROM OKLAHOMA
Top--Oklahoma State Capitol
Bottom--Will Rogers Memorial
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Mother's Day Greetings and Sunday Photo Blogging
Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers I know (especially my sister-in-law Charlotte, who's celebrating her first Mother's Day today).
In honor of the holiday, I'd like to share a picture of me with my mom from a long, long time ago:
This was taken in June, 1960 in front of the Humpty-Dumpty supermarket at the Reding Shopping Center, which used to be at the corner of SW 44th and S. Western in Okla. City. The shopping center was closed and torn down quite some ago to make room for expansion of the parking lot and facilities at the Integris Southwest Medical Center.
After promising myself several times over the last few years that I was going to buy myself a digital camera (and putting it off every time), I finally started doing some serious shopping over the last couple of days and came home yesterday with a Kodak EasyShare C653 (6.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom) plus some accessories--a camera case, a battery charger and batteries, and a 2 GB memory card. I haven't started learning how to use it yet, but I'm going to do that over the next few days, and hopefully have a picture or pictures ready to post by next weekend, if not sooner.
In honor of the holiday, I'd like to share a picture of me with my mom from a long, long time ago:
This was taken in June, 1960 in front of the Humpty-Dumpty supermarket at the Reding Shopping Center, which used to be at the corner of SW 44th and S. Western in Okla. City. The shopping center was closed and torn down quite some ago to make room for expansion of the parking lot and facilities at the Integris Southwest Medical Center.
After promising myself several times over the last few years that I was going to buy myself a digital camera (and putting it off every time), I finally started doing some serious shopping over the last couple of days and came home yesterday with a Kodak EasyShare C653 (6.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom) plus some accessories--a camera case, a battery charger and batteries, and a 2 GB memory card. I haven't started learning how to use it yet, but I'm going to do that over the next few days, and hopefully have a picture or pictures ready to post by next weekend, if not sooner.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Wednesday Postcard Blogging
Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
CAPITAL: Oklahoma City. AREA: 68, 782 sq. miles. POPULATION: (1970 census) 2, 559, 253. MOTTO: "Labor Conquers All Things." NICKNAME: Sooner State. 46th state admitted to Union--Nov. 16, 1907.
The caption on the back:
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
CAPITAL: Oklahoma City. AREA: 68, 782 sq. miles. POPULATION: (1970 census) 2, 559, 253. MOTTO: "Labor Conquers All Things." NICKNAME: Sooner State. 46th state admitted to Union--Nov. 16, 1907.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Sunday Photo Blogging
Today's photo:
This is one small part of the garden at my grandparents' house in Kentucky from the summer of 1962. Both of my grandparents (or maybe just my grandfather--my memory is a little fuzzy) enjoyed gardening and they had quite a few large flower beds around their house as well as a pretty big vegetable garden.
This is one small part of the garden at my grandparents' house in Kentucky from the summer of 1962. Both of my grandparents (or maybe just my grandfather--my memory is a little fuzzy) enjoyed gardening and they had quite a few large flower beds around their house as well as a pretty big vegetable garden.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Wednesday Postcard Blogging
Last night I decided to take a break from working on photos and started going through a couple of boxes of postcards, just to see what I have (since I hadn't looked through them in a long time and only had a vague idea of what was there) and to try to consolidate them into one box (which I did). I was pleasantly surprised to discover quite a few postcards from Oklahoma and Oklahoma City, most of them from the 1950s and 1960s, along with a lot of other cards from various times and places that we've bought, received or inherited over the years.
Just for fun (and to try out more of my scanner's various bells and whistles), I've decided to start scanning and posting some of them here, starting with this one (which my grandmother sent to my aunt while she and my grandfather were here for the State Fair in 1969):
The caption on the back:
OKLAHOMA STATE FLAG
The Flag is symbolic. The tan center is an Osage warrior's buckskin shield, representing defensive or protective warfare. Across the shield runs the red man's Calumet (Peace Pipe) crossed with the white man's peace symbol, the olive branch. The small crosses are Indian stars and represent lofty ideals. The blue field represents the blue skies of Oklahoma.
Just for fun (and to try out more of my scanner's various bells and whistles), I've decided to start scanning and posting some of them here, starting with this one (which my grandmother sent to my aunt while she and my grandfather were here for the State Fair in 1969):
The caption on the back:
OKLAHOMA STATE FLAG
The Flag is symbolic. The tan center is an Osage warrior's buckskin shield, representing defensive or protective warfare. Across the shield runs the red man's Calumet (Peace Pipe) crossed with the white man's peace symbol, the olive branch. The small crosses are Indian stars and represent lofty ideals. The blue field represents the blue skies of Oklahoma.
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