The next day and more

We woke up in our "cowgirl room with lots of birds chirping outside. There were several goldfinches and of course the ubiquitous Canadian geese. I am beginning to believe these are the most populous birds in America. We took a couple of pictures at the Stardust in, then headed out on our adventure. Our second day of our second visit to the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge and Medicine Park, Oklahoma was sunny but windy. On the last trip here, I breezed by the "holy city of the Wichitas", but this time because the road up Mount Scott was closed and Georgia was with me, we took a closer look at this place. http/www.theholycitylawton.com It is a life-size replica of various sites in Jerusalem at the time. This came about because the terrain here is pretty much like Israel. This is the site of America's longest running passion play. Apparently Teddy Roosevelt gave a grant to start it, but they have had to fund themselves through donations, etc. since. The amazing thing to me is that this Christian Icon still exists in a Federal facility. Surely prayers for protection are at work here. The passion play will be presented this coming weekend and Easter weekend. Here are a few pictures to give you an idea, but go to the website I listed above to experience more. Dr. Bahr, my host at this OSU made me aware of a holy land in the Orlando, FL area also. Their site is: http/www.holyland-orlando.com I didn't know this place existed. Maybe on one of the trips to the condo in Florida, we can check this out too. Back to our Our Oklahoma experience. We took a few more longhorn pics, visited "town", but didn't go into any stores because it was so windy. These people apparently resurrected the town from the dead (no pun on Easter and the Holy City) Here's their site: http://www.medicine-park.com/ Then we headed "home" to get ready for another week. Wednesday evening, I drove down to Edmond (about an hour from Stillwater) to visit my cousin Monica Rosencrans, her husband Richard and their 2 boys. (2 girls are away at college). Had a great visit, I think. Georgia was unable to make the trip, which wa a bit of a bummer. We have now finished another locum and learned a little more about central Oklahoma. I had mentioned my good breakfast experience at "Shortcakes" last Saturday. Today, I hit the jackpot.. I found "Mom's Place" a little diner on the outskirts of town. I knew when I drove up and saw all the pickup trucks in front of the place that I had hit gold. I walked in and found it was a little less formal than the Lantern in Silver Lake, Indiana or the B&B in Gas City, Indiana, Sammy's in Champaign, Illinois, or Sharon's Cafe in Corvallis, Oregon, but the food was on par (except that just like Shortcakes, their potatoes were hash browns). There were a few guys sitting at the counter and some scattered around at small tables. There was no empty table, but there was a large table near the center occupied by a gentleman a bit older than myself. I asked if he minded if I sat at the table and he welcomed me. He introduced himself as Morton, then after I ordered, asked if I was passing through and I told him why we were in Stillwater, etc. Then he told me that he was originally from the Chicago area, was an MD (pulmonary medicine) who was retired and cared for his double amputee wife. I never got a clear answer as to how he got to central Oklahoma, but he was more than ready to inform me of his present passion which is global warming. He also claimed that he was probably the only socialist in the room. The intersting thing was that he wasn't Gorophillic or a T Boone Pickens follower. He felt those folks were only into it for the power and money. His whole take on global warming is that we simply need to cut the release of energy in the form of heat as much as we can, without making it a political issue to be carrion for the politicians to feast on. I'm guessing he would have laid it all out in detail, but I had to get to work. He left me his card and several of his websites. I'll post them here, but remember that I haven't looked at them yet. If it elightens you, let me know... if not, I guess I can remove them if necessary... let me know. http://www.globalresearch.ca/ http://axisoflogic.com/ http://oklahoma%20citizen.org/ This started my last day at work for this trip. Georgia got to see her local stylist at La Ritz. The highlight of my last work day was John (one of the radiology technologists) who made his second batch of home made ice cream on subsequent "food Fridays". This time he promised Strawberry; and he delivered. He also is allowing me to "publish" his recipe. Catch this for simple. 2liter bottle of Strawberry "soda", a can of condensed milk and strawberries... So can you figure out how he makes orange pineapple??? Yup. 2liters of orange drink, a can of condensed milk and crushed pinapple. You can take it from there to make whatever flavor you like. It's kind of sherbetty, but delicious. I said my goodbyes again to some really fun people to work with and we head for home again. Today, we saw several spring trees in bloom, wondering if the our tulips at home are peaking through beckoning those pesky wabbits. I have to say that if our tulips are destroyed this year, some bunnies are going to regret it.