Ranch Country Gates

A cool front was moving in  across this hot sky. It built all afternoon and the next day the prairie got some water. Wildhorse Ranch...what an exciting name. This ranch is located on Highway 16 in eastern Oklahoma south of Tulsa, near Beggs, Oklahoma.

Trails End Ranch...another great gate sign. I don't know why these ranch gates intrigue me, but maybe they are an unnoticed and slowly vanishing part of the prairie lands.

The "W" hanging off the end is a fun touch, huh? I saw this one in the hills somewhere in Arkansas just across the hills from Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

No Man's Land sign had figures worked in

wrought iron and wagon wheels. I love the term 'wrought iron" almost as much as well as "barbed wire."

 Here is the last stanza of a poem I wrote about the pasture lands. It's called Of a Summer Morning:

Out in the pasture where cows gentle graze,

White egrets stalk silently through summer days.

Grasshoppers balance- on hot grasses sway,

To the melodies blackbirds and barbed wire play. 

A red-tailed hawk sat perched on the north end of the Longhorn cattle ranch gate. One click of my camera and he flew. What a sight.

My guess is that this ranch is owned by Mr. Barnhart. A cute sign but not an entrance gate.

Windmill for the cattle water well. Many ranches need one to bring up water in dry spells.

Hard to read against a bright blue sky, Tiwana Ranch, is on Highway 16 west of Beggs.

RICE?

The Dillingham ranch is located east of Okmulgee, Oklahoma. It was a huge working ranch for many years. Recently we have noticed the signs coming down.

 These ranches define the rolling prairies and the people who have raised beef cattle and horses in this region for many years. Fences and gates, pastures and ponds, grass, cows, egrets and dragonflies. I love it all!