Oklahoma

[rginn]

I like to go back from time to time and be reminded of how hot it can get, how hard the wind blows, and all the things that bite, sting, or just scare the crap out of you.

 

[fossis]

It's good to go back once in a while, wouldn't want you getting too 'soft' up in those cool mts.

Fossis............

 

[BloodyBelle]

Where was pic #2 taken? It is a beautiful photograph.

 

[colorado14ers]

gese man, its hot there!!!!! not like colorado . Pic 2 is beautiful

 

[rginn]

Pic #2 is taken at Tom Steed Reservoir, in Great Plains State Park in Kiowa County, about 4 miles north of Mt. Park. I lived there for about a year in 70, just almost in the middle of the right of the photo. No lake there then. Lots and lots of history there. The final Camp Radziminski was located about 2 miles south of this pic. Gold Belles mine and cyanide mill, and the mining town of Wildman are about 3 miles north. For treasure tales, you can't beat it. The narrows on Otter Creek with the old crossing are south of the pic, and Twin Mountains are about 3 miles west. The old Spanish road along the north fork of the Red river is southwest, and Devil's Canyon is straight west. This area is in the Wichita Mountain range and there's so much history and tall tales about this place that I can't even begin to tell you all of it, and even I don't yet know all of it. But it is Oklahoma, and Oklahoma can look pretty sometimes.

 

[BloodyBelle]

Pic #2 is taken at Tom Steed Reservoir, in Great Plains State Park in Kiowa County, about 4 miles north of Mt. Park. I lived there for about a year in 70, just almost in the middle of the right of the photo. No lake there then. Lots and lots of history there. The final Camp Radziminski was located about 2 miles south of this pic. Gold Belles mine and cyanide mill, and the mining town of Wildman are about 3 miles north. For treasure tales, you can't beat it. The narrows on Otter Creek with the old crossing are south of the pic, and Twin Mountains are about 3 miles west. The old Spanish road along the north fork of the Red river is southwest, and Devil's Canyon is straight west. This area is in the Wichita Mountain range and there's so much history and tall tales about this place that I can't even begin to tell you all of it, and even I don't yet know all of it. But it is Oklahoma, and Oklahoma can look pretty sometimes.

I'll have to check that out. There's a lake I'd like to try figure out what it was before it was a lake. Really great shot.

 

[rginn]

Just a couple more.

 

[rginn]

Almost forgot my son's timber rattler. She had 10 babies while I was out there.

 

[BloodyBelle]

How about one with a recluse spider in your hand?

(I'm terrified of those things.)

 

[colorado14ers]

Just a couple more.

I onl like the first one . spiders and snakes creep me out!!!!

 

[naturegirl]

Hey! welcome home! Yeah, it's hot, but not much longer. Been a toasty one this summer, but it's fixin' to change. I've read alot of those tales about your neck of the woods, and I've seen pictures of the cyanide mill, it surely fires the imagination. I like all the critter pics, of course. does your son let the snake out? it's not in a cage. what happens to the babies? She's a beaut!

lisa

 

[rginn]

My son's a herpetologist and catches these things for study and educational purposes. She stays in a container. Timber Rattlers are more laid back than Diamondbacks and this one especially was, as she was gravid when the pic was taken. (A pregnant mom getting ready to give birth) He has a lot of snakes around, but doesn't keep them very long. This one and the babies will be released back into the wild here soon before winter. Watch your step!

 

[Felinepeachy]

WOW, those are great pics. No way I could get pics like that if spiders were involved

 

[Mental Granny]

Great pics still waiting on that call when you all are here ! Hey did ya take a varmits home with ya ?

 

[rginn]

Kind of a hurry-up trip MG. Still I make time to check a couple of sites that I found that nobody else knows about yet. It would really help me a lot if y'all would an extended drought in a certain area and the lake levels would drop about 5 or 6 feet. Didn't bring any critters home, because the altitude would be bad for them here, and nothin he has is considered a pet. He has permits for that sort of thing, and he was probably doin something on the birthing process of that timber rattler, who knows. A little different to have around as a kid growing up, and you always kept the door to his room closed. Very tightly.

 

[BloodyBelle]

RGINN: Those floods may have kicked some stuff around. FWIW.

 

[Ray S S]

Some very interesting pics here. But some of them I would just as soon steer clear of, myself. LOL

Like the #2 pic and the one of the fawn.

Thanks for sharing.

Ray

 

[Chug And Red]

Congratulation's on the Great Pic's!!!!! red is freaking out If she had 8 legs she would be hanging on the ceiling!!!!! I just got out of the bath!! And she is freaking out sitting on the Couch!!!! curled up into a ball!!

 

[rginn]

Cool, I just saw that Chug, hahahaha! I aim to please!