Daily photos from Oklahoma City and the surrounding
metro area
Monday, October 20, 2008
Lake Hefner
Here was my first surprise. Right in the middle of OKC is Lake Hefner. The buildings in the background are the downtown area. I'm taking the picture from the farside of the lake. There is actually a very nice jogging track all the way around the lake and a one way road, and sailboats, but no motorboats. It's a beautiful lake, right off the freeway.
Seeing a lake in the middle of a city would surprise me too! But the way you describe it — with the jogging tracks and all — makes me wish Metro Manila had a lake too. But we'd probably just mess it up badly.
Oh, hi Hilda, I have a good friend from Manila. I think OKC, cause Lake Hefner has some pretty pricey restaurants and the marina there, does seem to do a good job of keeping it in pretty good shape, and even more important - clean. It really it a beautiful lake.
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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Seeing a lake in the middle of a city would surprise me too! But the way you describe it — with the jogging tracks and all — makes me wish Metro Manila had a lake too. But we'd probably just mess it up badly.
Oh, hi Hilda, I have a good friend from Manila. I think OKC, cause Lake Hefner has some pretty pricey restaurants and the marina there, does seem to do a good job of keeping it in pretty good shape, and even more important - clean. It really it a beautiful lake.
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