Great White Egret

   

Great-horned Owl, Sopping Wet

Red Reflection from Kickapoo to Clouds

A low layer of clouds reflected the red clay surface of the lake.

Lake Kickapoo Spillway

I read that not since 1995 has the level of Lake Kickapoo risen to flow over its spillway.

Scottish Rite Masonic Center

The impressive building of the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Above the columns one reads: "To the Glory of the Grand Architect of the Universe."

Commenced in 1921, finished in 1928. 

Atrium with different columns, Corinthian, see on either side of Joan, Greek, and Doric at the stairs.

      Above one of the doors into the auditorium, the Freemasons installed an alabaster stone from the same quarry where King Solomon found the stones for his own temple. 

Phoenician Room.

Phil walks down one many impressive hallways.

Egyptian Room.

Crystal Room.

Joan at the piano. 

      The interior designer, Kathy Davis, attempted to represent in each room, each period in the recorded history of humankind. Details are prolific in every room. 

A player for 78 RPM records. 

                  The Library. with Mark Twain original editions, autographed by Samuel Clemens, stored behind glass.

The Scottish Rite Masonic Center maintains a website with a virtual tour of some of its rooms.

Visit here: Guthrie Scottish Rite

Spillway at Lake Wichita

Enthralling to see the water after several years of little rain.

Lake Kickapoo at Sixty Percent

High Wichita River

Lake Wichita Spillway

       Has it been about ten years since I have seen water flowing over the spillway? Almost bone-dry until last year, Lake Wichita's water level this week gushes over its spillway. 

       Aerial images from John's helicopter as we flew to each reservoir after the heavy rains. 

Old Aircraft Blades

Sitting on the floor of the shop, waiting to be taken to scrap metal recycling.

Busy Cliff Swallows

Blue-curls

At the foot of Enchanted Rock.

Bug on Bitterweed

At the foot of Enchanted Rock.

Paintbrush

"Out of the Mystic Past"

Sculpture by Fritz White, Museum of Western Art, Kerrville.

Memorial Courtyard, Fredericksburg

Walkway at the Memorial Courtyard, National Museum of the Pacific War.

One of too many lost during World War II.

Bee on a Pincushion Daisy

Pink Primrose

Fox-glove

Indian Paintbrush

. . . a peeking at left is a Texas paintbrush.