These large old oak trees are in Spaulding Park, Muskogee Oklahoma. Very large trees and must have stood here for long years. I was amazed by the size.
Amazing old large trees attract me for some reason, must be part squirrel I suppose. These were really neat old trees but I didn’t see a single squirrel in the park.
White Crowned Sparrow in the Green Hills of Oklahoma
Many years back when we lived in North Pole, Alaska on the old Permafrost Ranch I would write about the “Deep Green of the Boreal Forest” of Alaska. Spring and summer brought upon the countryside a deepening green color overlay to the forest. Those of you who have been there, I’m sure you understand what I’m trying to convey. Of all the places we have traveled to so far, the hills of Northeast Oklahoma also has a quality green light that permeates the forest here. In fact as a tourist attraction, they begin to call this area the Green Country to differentiate it from the western parts of Oklahoma. Those areas tend to be more like the southern plains than the forested hills of the north east.
Found this rare Texas Bottle Tree outside of San Antonio. It was well guarded and I couldn’t get a piece of the bottle fruit to see if it was any good.
