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Tulsa & TallGrass

Hark!

April 10, 2009

There’s the sign: TallGrass Prairie Preserve. And so we drive slowly across the giant “cattle” guard and down the gravel road. Inching along. Music blaring. Binoculars ever ready. Cameras poised. Eyes peeling the horizon. Hardly breathing (humming). Driving. Driving and looking. Stopping. Looking. Didn’t the website say that they had herds of bison?  Like, about [...]

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Art on the prairie

April 10, 2009

But we find art on the prairie. In the color of the long stems of grass and the pattern of tree bark.  It’s in the rock texture.  The way the leaves curl against each other in the cold.  The color of a leaf.  The softness of thistle down. What colors should we load our palettes [...]

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How blue –

April 10, 2009

The day came to a close for us.  Our first exploration on the sea of grass, hunting buffalo, and eating Fritoes.  Singing with the wind on the prairie.  Dancing in the dirt.  Collecting seeds and memories.  Planning our return.

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