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Before The Sunset

Capture the day in its fullest, watch the cool colors of nature ride the beautiful winds together. Take part in the rising sun's long,...

A Hampshire Welcome in a Nowata Way

The grass is extra green. The sky still partly cloudy. A way of saying "it may rain, but we are only saying partially". The lawn is...

Will Watching The Weather

Summer time heats the Oklahoma ground like the desert sands under the bright golden sun, with the heat of the day rising up from the...

Grandma’s Pretties

Grandma keeps all the best of little candies, the small ones with color and stripes. They are wrapped in various dishes of glass, they...

July 4th 1934

My grandfather, Roy Peck and his wife Vera (O'Bera) had gotten married and lived in Mtn. View Oklahoma and had their eldest son Roy in...

Behind The Gate

The boards. Well you can see them as plain as I can. They are dry. They are simple and ordinary in the character shown, as hand cut...

Looked Upon

It is morning, and the sun has begun the daily brightening of the sky and the feel of heat upon the land is beginning to make the dew...

Avalon

Here you go folks, step right in to the past lives of those of us who have lived, loved and lounged about this 'ole planet, bringing...

Art As It Wears

A drab black suit hanging in the old pine closet in the older man's room. Coat and pants, draped over a white shirt on a wooden hanger,...

Shapes

There was A man who Peered through His glasses And saw The Light Around him Grow, and grow And it all became Larger, and soon he Felt his...

Hidden Rose

The greenery grows. Each small leaf is wrapped among the others, around the thorns of the spines and branches that are the transferrals...

Cicada

When the windmill runs its never ending turns, and the metal blades slice the air with chops of little thwacks and whacks, and the head...

Finding Strang

In northeast Oklahoma, several miles from anywhere in any direction, you'll find the small town of Strang, four blocks long by five...

The Water Will

When the air is not blowing, and the wind is not strong, the sky attempts to garner our thoughts by changing its colors across the field....

Tell Me Mama

"Mama," she was asked, "When the people are gone, and the houses are slowly falling apart, and the ground looks like it has given up and...

Potatoes Made

I found a bag of potatoes that had been moved to the back of the closet when things were being kicked around and new stuff laid in,...

Looking Ahead To The Night

If one should want to see the night filled with glory, and feel it culminate with all the colors God places in the earth, one only has to...

When They Were

Together for a weekend. Families from the Texas panhandle, southwest and northeast Oklahoma, all brought by the family name, for fun...

Watch The Morning

Sit very still. Cup of coffee still hot. Steam rising from the cup. Watch the morning make it's appearance. Shades of yellow appear...

Lloyd’s Tire Shop

Houseful of Bargains The font and vernacular make you read it fast and then slow, the rusting tin of the porch's roof rolls the history...

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