Skywatch Friday: 2026

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 25 June 2026 Edition

From some years ago, a large tree in what is now known as Veterans Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 18 June 2026 Edition

Reflections on Pepsi Lake on Tulsa's Turkey Mountain

From some years ago, the sky and reflections on Pepsi Lake in the Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area of Tulsa, Oklahoma. A favorite haunt of mine.

Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday. I really look forward to seeing everyone's posts.

Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 11 June 2026 Edition

On a cruise ship years ago docking in Honolulu at the end of an Hawaiian Cruise. What an adventure we had!! I took my brand new DSLR camera and took lots and lots of photos.

Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday. I really look forward to everyone's posts.

Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 4 June 2026

Years ago, I was at a business conference in San Antonio, Texas. Early one morning, I looked out my window and the rising son was there the color of the sky silhouetted by an adjoining building. What I liked about it was the "see through" window in the building letting a small square of the sky through.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 28 May 2026

A cloudless sunset from the big sky country of western Oklahoma from a visit to see some of my wife's family years ago.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 21 May 2026 Edition

A skywatch scene somewhere in Tulsa ten years ago this month. I used the Hipstamatic App. Have you ever used it. It adds a lot of character to photos.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 14 May 2026 Edition

An older brick apartment building in downtown Tulsa on a bright clear day

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 7 May 2026

A view from my office in downtown Tulsa (back before I retired) looking northwest to the Arkansas River. I had that view for almost twenty years and never got tired of it. I took hundreds of photos over the years from there.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 30 April 2026 Edition

A view from the west bank of the Arkansas River looking east toward downtown and midtown Tulsa.

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Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 23 April 2026 Edition

A pond at a city park here in Tulsa some years back. Sorry for the funky colored sky.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 2026 USA Tax Day Edition

A view of some of the tulips at the Tulsa Botanic Garden. Full confession I took it years ago. I think I was still on "A" my camera cuz looking at the settings they don't look like anything I would do now. Of course the photo looks better than my typical effort now but that's a different story. Once you get on M, you never go back to A, right? Or at least you don't admit to it.
I hope everyone has their taxes done. We turned in all our data to the accountant and so he is taking care of it. (I hope.) Our son filed his first tax return today. He was able to use one of the "free" offerrings on the IRS site. It worked out well. They will file your state taxes also, not free. I advised him to just go ahead and pay it. It's his money so I felt free to be generous with it.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 9 April 2026 Edition

Last light of the evening in New Orleans, Louisiana some years ago. The church spire belongs to the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France. A spectacular building inside and out. I just love New Orleans. It's a great place to visit. Note that I am not afraid of some wires in my photo. You shouldn't be either especially if making photos in urban areas.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 2 April 2026 Edition

Office Complex in Tulsa reflected in the Arkansas River

The former Oral Roberts University Medical Center, now an office complex. I love the bronze sheathing on the building in the late afternoon light.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 26 March 2026 Edition

A legacy of a sunset in Tulsa from years ago when I used to run after work.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 19 March 2026 Edition

A legacy shot from the parking building of my former employer in downtown Tulsa showing the former First Christian Church.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and his email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 12 March 2026 Edition

The Tulsa Driller installed at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds from back in the day when Tulsa, Oklahoma was the known as the "Oil Capital of the World."

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 5 March 2026 Edition

Tulsa's Philbrook Museum of Art. A Tulsa oilman donated the building and grounds to the City of Tulsa decades ago and it has turned into a great museum and accompanying gardens.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 26 February 2026 Edition

Fort Reno Chapel - Built by German POWs during WWII

Post Chapel at Fort Reno, near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was built by German Prisoners of War during World War II.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Skywatch Friday 19 February 2026 Edition

After work on top of the parking garage from back in the day when I did work in downtown Tulsa.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 12 February 2026 Edition

A Buddha sculpture at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Tam Bao Buddhist Temple

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 5 February 2026 Edition

My view late in the afternoon of the sunset and the Arkansas River looking northwest from my office office on the 17th floor of a building in downtown Tulsa. I took hundred of such photos in the 19 years I worked there. I got pretty good at techniques for minimzing internal reflections from the windows.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 29 January 2026 Edition

Landscaping at Lafortune Park here in Tulsa a few years ago when we had no snow. We got lots of snow last week.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 22 January 2026 Edition

A sunrise view in midtown Tulsa back in 2016 when I still worked. For years I'd roll out of bed at 5:15 am and either go to the gym or go run outside. Get cleaned up and go to this Panera for breakfast when it was still dark-thirty o'clock in the morning. I'm retired and I think back on my diligence as I can pick and choose my favorite daylight hours to go exercise now. Fine, except I haven't taken a sunrise photo in a long time.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 15 January 2026 Edition

A photo from a school ski trip that my son Logan took to Breckinridge, Colorado in 2016. I'm stealing it for the SWF header this week. Son didn't go skiiing but he found lots to eat and drink while there. We loaded him up with cold weather gear and he didn't use any of it so I used for when I was still running. I think he had a good time. My wife and I were empty nesters for a week and we had a wonderful time. Of course we missed him. This is another photo that I had set to private so it is being exposed to the world for the very first time with this post.

Apparently Breckenridge has a yearly snow sculpture contest. Check this link for the 2026 edition.

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Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Skywatch Friday - 8 January 2026 Edition

A photo from a late January afternoon years ago when I worked in downtown Tulsa. One afternoon the sun was shining straight down the east west streets (which are oriented quite a bit off east and west since they were squared up the railroad tracks way back when in Tulsa.) The sun was low and we had a very nice yellowish orangish light shining almost horizontally onto the buildings. Sorry for the grainy photo and the internal reflection from the window that I shot through.

I notice that I had set this photo to "private" for some reason years ago so you folks are the first to see this photo, except for myself that is. Not that it is a very good photo.

Thank you for participating in Skywatch Friday.

Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Skywatch Friday - Happy New Years 2026 Edition!!

Sunset on the Arkansas River as it passes through Tulsa.

I appreciate everyone's participation in 2025. I love the gentle corner of photoblogging on the internet. Let everybody else ragebait but we'll still be here showing off our photographs and leaving helpful comments with each other. I love it. I am wishing all of you a peaceful, healthy, rewarding, and prosperous 2026.

Skywatch Friday is open 12:30 PM on Thursdays, Oklahoma, USA time and stays open seven days until the next edition opens.

Your host is Alan Bates at YogisDen.us and my email address is yogiabb@yahoo.com