A Flight in August

Butterfly

We spent a very hot but extremely enjoyable weekend at my uncle’s home in Tulsa earlier this month in celebration of the boatload of birthdays that occur from late July into mid-August in our family. We golfed, we swam, we cooked out, we talked, we laughed. Also, on our last day there, I nabbed this photo of a gigantic butterfly near the pool. I’m submitting it for the Greeblepix contest, but really I’m just putting it up here because I like it. A lot. There were others I took without the butterfly in motion, but I just like this one better, somehow. In general I’m not a big fan of August – and with five straight weeks of 100+ temperatures (thanks, climate change!), it’s good to have little reminders like this that the sun hasn’t decided to go red giant 5 billion or so years early and that eventually, autumn will come.

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Vintage OKC

Vintage 23rd

Nabbed this photo from ShopGirl at the Oklahoma Gazette. It’s of 23rd Street back in the day, with the Tower Theater sign intact, and WITHOUT the buzzing concrete spine of the Broadway Extension in the background. God, I’d have loved to see it back then. Click the photo to find out more about its origins, etc.

Wherein I’m On The Side of America’s Small Business Owners

Oklahoma Gazette readers are once again subjected to my words this week, as I offer my take on the whole Iguana-Taco John’s debacle:

This is the kind of thing that local businesses are up against. It’s also why they are almost always better. The restaurants; the stores; the little, out-of-the-way places owned by your neighbors; the people in your neighborhood; the people you go to church with — they have to be a hundred times more creative, a hundred times more resilient and persistent and straight-up good, because they don’t have zillions of dollars for next-to-the-highway real estate and ad time during “The Bachelorette.”

The whole article is over at their website or, if you’re lucky enough to live in the OKC, in print.

Seriously, people. I know the Olive Garden has unlimited salad and breadsticks. Of this I am aware. But maybe the last thing America needs is "unlimited" anything – go to Flip’s. Falcone’s. Zorba’s. Nomad. Sophabella’s. Deep Fork Grill. Trattoria il Centro. The list of awesome locally-owned establishments in Oklahoma City is literally endless; keep the money local, people.

One great way to do so? Try as many of aforementioned Gazette‘s "Best of OKC" picks. They’re listed right here.

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