Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie
Every 10 days to two weeks I make the trip from Wichita to Tulsa to call on customers in Tulsa and Broken Arrow. If I travel late at night or early in the morning, when it's still dark, I take the Cimmeron Turnpike through north central Oklahoma. The speed limit is 75 mph, so the trip goes pretty quickly. There is nothing to really see in the dark, so it might as well go by quickly. On the way home, I'm not as much interested in speed as I am in the scenery.
US Route 60 runs east and west through the middle of the Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie, and it makes a very pleasant trip at a slower pace that allows me to watch for interesting things to photograph. The Tallgrass Prairie in Oklahoma is part of the same range land that is in Kansas, but in Kansas we call it the Flint Hills.
The stark emptiness of the prairie in the winter makes you understand why the Spanish, who were the first Europeans to explore it thought it a "Great Desert". It's anything but a desert, but it is empty... well, except for the hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, horses,the old deserted houses and all of the oil wells.
The fence lines in this area have interesting dry stacks of limestine rocks. These rocks cover most of the ground and when the prairie is burned back in the spring you can see the rocks scattered over the land. Without many trees to make posts from and no large deposits of limestone to cut post rocks, the dry stacks of smaller limestone make a good anchor for any fence line.
US Route 60 runs east and west through the middle of the Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie, and it makes a very pleasant trip at a slower pace that allows me to watch for interesting things to photograph. The Tallgrass Prairie in Oklahoma is part of the same range land that is in Kansas, but in Kansas we call it the Flint Hills.
The stark emptiness of the prairie in the winter makes you understand why the Spanish, who were the first Europeans to explore it thought it a "Great Desert". It's anything but a desert, but it is empty... well, except for the hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, horses,the old deserted houses and all of the oil wells.
The fence lines in this area have interesting dry stacks of limestine rocks. These rocks cover most of the ground and when the prairie is burned back in the spring you can see the rocks scattered over the land. Without many trees to make posts from and no large deposits of limestone to cut post rocks, the dry stacks of smaller limestone make a good anchor for any fence line.
1 comment:
These are really great! I love the one of the old barn... of course!
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