Alan Bates
alanbbates.bsky.social
Alan Bates
@alanbbates.bsky.social
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Retired Natural Gas Guy, native New Mexican, Naturalized Okie, hiker, bicyclist, picture taker, blogger, geocacher, rino, tree hugger, climate change believer, reader, reading tutor
Starting today!
Never Flinch by Stephen King
#booksky
August 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Big cloud billowing up over the Gulf of Mexico just off Orange Beach, Alabama

#Weather #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #redneckriviera
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Can’t get enough of Gulf of Mexico skies. This is at Wolf Bay in Orange Beach

#skies #skywatch #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #vacation #redneckriviera
August 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hanging out in Belzoni, Mississippi

#vacation #Belzoni
August 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I love hotel self serve waffles!!
August 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Garden Steps
July 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Found a Western Kingbird at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area.

#burds #westernkingbird
June 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A squirrel at the Ray Harral Nature Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Tulsa Sunset this evening
June 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Rainbow in my Tulsa neighborhood this evening
June 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
One of my wife’s pots on our back patio. She really likes color.
#flowers
June 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
An indigo bunting I found today while hiking at Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Area.

#indigobunting
May 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Hiking on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area
May 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Remembering our fallen heroes today.

#MemorialDay
May 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy Easter from Oklahoma!

#Easter
April 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
First Iris is blooming in the backyard

#iris #flowers #tulsa
April 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The Full Pink Moon over Tulsa tonight
#moon #fullmoon #Fullpinkmoon #skywatch #tulsaskies
April 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Life size origami ponies at the Tulsa Botanic Garden.

#origami #florigami #tulsabotanicgarden
April 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A tulip from the Tulsa Botanic Garden today

#tulsabotanicgarden #tulsa
April 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The Full Hunger Moon over Tulsa this evening

#moon #fullmoon #fullhungermoon #skywatching
February 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
On the blog today. My Saturday's Critters Post
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February 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sitting outside in the nice weather wearing my brand new PsychoBunny pink shirt enjoying the weather and feeling sorry for all my ex coworkers who are slaving away helping America meet her energy needs
#retiredlife
February 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Late Saturday afternoon pizza run in south Tulsa
#streets #skies #Tulsa #raw
January 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A short video of a sampling of the birds that visited our backyard bird cam this past week
#birds #birdcam #tulsa
January 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I guess we’ll live
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM