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Recently I went camping at Robbers Cave State Park in southeastern Oklahoma. It was a pretty place in the San Bois mountains that looked appealing and it was close to the Ouachita Mountains, one of my favorite ranges in the country. The camping wasn’t great but the hiking was pretty good. At the center of…
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Last week I hit Oklahoma again on my regular travels, this time focusing on eastern and southeastern regions. I visited Robbers Cave State Park just northwest of Wilburton for a night of camping and day of hiking, then moved to Cedar Lake, a forest service campground just south of Heavener. It’s about 15 miles north…
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Gee, has it been this long without a post? Really? Seriously? I just clicked on my blog today and noticed the royal wedding was my last literary offering. Sorry! Here’s what happened the past 10 days… umm…. well…. ummm…. just a sec…. ummm… thinking here…. well…. not much. Working hard, playing safe, and walking straight.…
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see the wedding? See the fairytale of the century play out? Hear the angelic choirs and symphonic tones filling the ancient cathedral? See the prince arrayed in splendor and the maiden dressed in white? Did you see it? I did. I wasn’t planning to see the Prince William of England marry college sweetheart Kate early…
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I haven’t actually filmed an episode here yet but last Saturday afternoon I stopped by one of America’s forgotten treasures: old Platt National Park in Sulphur, Oklahoma. I say “old” because Platt no longer exists — at least not in the honor it once did for 70 years. Created in 1906 by Congress in the…
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With all the thunderstorms in North Texas today, I thought I’d share some of what I experienced last week in Oklahoma. Strong storms developed each day just east of I-44. Friday evening I was on top of Mount Scott, a 2,400-foot peak in the Wichita Mountains, when storms started rolling in. So I turned my…
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I’m home sick this afternoon, so I thought I’d write a quick blog about the past four days in my life. It started Thursday at the church, when a high pre-Easter stress level drove me to throw my things in the back of my car after work and drive 190 miles to the northwest. Seem…
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Palm Sunday is tomorrow (today if you read this after midnight). It’s the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem to the fanfare of, you know, donkey, palm branches, hosanna and so forth. The story is two thousand years old and, even though the sacred words of Scripture have been read and preached on a million…
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Took this photo last night. Walnut sized pieces of hail fell from the sky during our neighborhood’s first major storm of the season. This quarter-sized hailstone was the biggest I recovered yesterday.
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Last week I downloaded a new album from iTunes — well, by “new” I mean “old” but new to me. It’s 1981’s “Troubadour of the Great King” by John Michael Talbot, a humble Franciscan monk and leader of a Catholic religious community in Arkansas. The album is amazing, a mixture of folk, worship and orchestral…
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