Hay Bales

I'm going to try to start posting a pictue-a-day here.  And other ramblings as well.  *crosses fingers for success and persistence*

Hay Bales, Newcastle, Oklahoma, May 26, 2013.  Photo by Laura Anne Heller

8 January 2011: Cars

8JAN2011, originally uploaded by blueathena7.

I took this somewhere on Hwy 8 in Oklahoma. I had driven down to Anadarko by way of Hwy 8 (Hinton, Lookeba, Binger, etc) and back again. It is now the 12th of January and I still have to edit and upload the pictures I took on this drive. There should be quite a few interesting ones. I kept driving down side roads for a mile or two before turning around and coming back to the main highway. A few of those diversions gave me ideas and images, but sometimes I wanted to stop but was afraid that a homeowner might storm out on their porch, shotgun in hand, and holler out some curses and shoot at me.

Once I stopped at a cemetery because I noticed it was kinda on a hill. I could get to the top of that hill and get some wide landscape photographs. I also liked the idea of a one tree hill image. I got lucky because some cows were out to pasture and decided to go drink some water at a nearby pond, so I snapped a bunch of pics of them. If I had a bigger zoom I would've gotten close-ups of their faces. But nonetheless, I think the shots of those black cows standing on red dirt by the pond that was reflecting the big blue sky should make interesting images. Good color, at least I hope so.

I also pulled over and took some pics of hale bales, a creek, fields. At this one spot I could hear someone drumming way across the field. I couldn't see anyone, but I was seriously tempted to walk into that mowed field towards the trees where I thought I could hear the drumming, but leaving my car unattended was less than desirable. Besides, what would I have said when coming upon the drummer? Hey, I heard you.

7 January 2011: Fire

7JAN2011, originally uploaded by blueathena7.

A couple of co-workers and I went to Anadarko, Oklahoma, to pick up some pictures. On the way back we spotted a terrible and heart-wrenching fire taking place off Hwy 62 near Chickasha, Oklahoma, on one of the county roads. Fire trucks and EMTs were screeching down the road to the fire. It moved quickly and the energetic wind gusts certainly didn't help stop it. I shot this picture to include the sky to show the cloud of smoke in contrast with the partly cloudy and sunny blue sky. Very sad event. I am hopeful that all persons and animals on the property survived unharmed.

Lauren Z

I'm not a big fan of slam poetry -- It's just not my style -- but I can appreciate the work of someone who stirs sincere emotion and speaks about real issues and real people. Lauren Zuniga is one of these phenomenal slam poets I love to listen to at live performances. Recently she performed at a house concert two poems which I recorded and have posted here by way of YouTube. Enjoy. Become her fan. Let her rock your world.





Lauren Zuniga performs her poems "To the Oklahoma Progressives Plotting Mass Exodus" and "Things to Do in an Ice Storm" on December 17, 2010, at a Blue Moon House Concert. Video recorded and edited by Laura Anne Heller of Blue Athena Productions.
Visit Blue Moon House Concerts on the web:
http://bluemoonhouseconcerts.moonfruit.com
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http://www.laurenzuniga.com