Daily photos from Oklahoma City and the surrounding
metro area
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Beautiful gate
This wrought iron gate with the rose bush iron work is the most beautiful gate and fence I've ever seen. It's at the outside of a housing development between my house, on the south end of Moore (south of OKC) just a few miles from Norman, by the rural route. Norman is the home of the University of Oklahoma, the Sooners.
It's beautiful. My dad has something similar for two of the gates leading up the mountain into his vineyard. I will have to take photos next time I am in California. :)
Oklahoma is called the Sooner State, because when the state was opened up land was given away not by lottery but by land run, in a "shotgun start" style. At a certain time, all the settlers lined up at the starting line took off at a dead run and ran as fast as their buggies, coaches, buckboards, horses and legs could take them until they could find land that no one had claimed, 160 acres at a time. Unfortunately, not everyone waited for the starting shot and took off Sooner than they were supposed to: hence, the Sooner State. This bronze statue, actually a series of statues depicting the land run, is found along the canal in Bricktown, in downtown Oklahoma City (OKC) and when finished will be the largest bronze statuary in the world.
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It's beautiful. My dad has something similar for two of the gates leading up the mountain into his vineyard. I will have to take photos next time I am in California. :)
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