Muskogee Mission

Don Williams is doing Tulsa Time

Thursday I flew from Atlanta, Georgia, USA to Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA to do a day’s worth of work with old friends of mine in nearby Muskogee, OK, USA. There might be a country song or two in here somewhere. We’ll see. I took the back roads from Tulsa in the rented pickup along the Arkansas River. It is currently a huge riverbed full of mostly sand bars. There is a lot of private property with No Trespassing signs all along the way. Such signs used to be an invitation for me to take a look-see. Now they mean I might get my ass shot. A lot like Oklahoma, Texas and most States eastward relative to private property. Completely different from large swaths of Wyoming, Utah, and much of Colorado where there is a lot of BLM land and State and National Parks where we are free to roam. So I mostly stuck to the pavement.

Along the way, I admired the scenery. Bright auburn on faded auburn broken by dark gray leafless trees and dense shrubbery with the pale blue sky above was the predominant view as I traversed the back roads from Tulsa to Muskogee. An excellent couple of hours.

I had all afternoon so I went up to Ft. Gibson Lake. The Ft. Gibson Lake dam was completed in the early 1950s and was constructed on the Neosho River for flood control and hydroelectric power generation. The Neosho River merges near Muskogee with the Arkansas River a few miles below the dam. The first photo is some greenery I found hiking along in the dense shadows of the limestone/sandstone/shale/coal seam bluffs. The rock is mostly late Pennsylvanian (approx. 300 million years old).

A shattered tree trunk offered an interesting view of the lake.

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