Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Today was Dollar Day at the Tulsa Zoo (6421 East 36th Street North, Tulsa, OK 74115)! Normal admission is $8, car park (weekends only) is $2, train ride is $1.50 one way. Total normal weekend admission & car park would have cost us a total of $18. But today we saved $15 because we only paid $1 each for the 2 of us and the car park was $1. We didn't go on the train ride.

Months before 31 July, the website said free admission on the 1st Saturday of August. At least they were getting in some money today. I am sure it is expensive to maintain a zoo. If they don't have a free or dollar day, we would still visit one day. The zoo is one of my favorite places to visit.

Entrance



Trashcan Man


Eastern diamondback rattlesnake


Tropical American Rain Forest





Fiji Banded Iguana


Komodo dragon


"Charity" - a penguin of the 2002 "Penguins on Parade" - a Tulsa Zoo fundraising project

You can find pictures of other "Penguins on Parade" in another blog - Irene's A Different Kind of Hunting

Lesser spot-nosed Guenon


African penguins



Giraffe, the tallest living animal? There were 3 of them in the enclosure. I guess the tallest was the father, under the shed, while the one in the sun was the mother. The shortest one was busy chewing leaves from a broken branch in a corner.


A Mammoth scene


Asian elephants.


"Maverick" who died in 1993 when he was only 7 years old.


150 cm ball black stone, spinning non-stop on a bed of pressurized water.


Exit!


Mike said "the animals are smart, they are in the cool, the people are stupid, they walk in the heat".

Yes, it was a hot day but not that terrible because there were resting and cooling stations along the tracks. Yes, most animals, that were kept in the open, were resting in the shade and so we didn't get to see them. On the whole, we enjoyed the 3-1/2 hrs there. The Zoo and living museum was great. Beautiful zoo! An interesting way to get your exercise by walking on the 78 acre land. Worth visiting for all their normal fees.

Gilcrease Museum

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

1st Tuesday every month, so it was free admission. We are grateful to save $13. We got there about 3:30pm and so had only 1-1/2 hours to see what is inside the Gilcrease Museum (1400 North Gilcrease Museum Road, Tulsa, OK 74127).

Beautiful paintings and sculptures. We got to see 3 exhibitions:
(1) "Perfectly American: The Art-Union and Its Artists", displayed from July 24 through October 2, 2011.
(2) "America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Nation", displayed from June 26, 2010 through January 2, 2012.
(3) "To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama", displayed from June 19, 2011 to January 15, 2012.

Like many museums, photography and videography are not allowed inside.

I am sharing with you 2 pictures of the bronze sculpture called "Sacred Rain Arrow" by Allan Houser, and it is located right in front of the Gilcrease Museum entrance. Wish that archer could shoot the sky and bring rain now to this city and state. It has been hot hot hot.



Nice landscape. I am sure it would be more beautiful in Spring when the flowers are blooming.

Golden Driller

Saturday, 30 July 2011

We were at this place on the 29 May 2011 but didn't take a picture of the 76 feet Golden Driller statue then. Today we finally got a picture of it for remembrance. It stood outside the Tulsa Flea Market (4145 East 21st Street, Tulsa, OK 74114). Can't miss it!

Woodward Park and Municipal Rose Garden

Saturday, 30 July 2011

This was where we walked into - the Linnaeus Teaching Garden, of the Woodward Park (1370 East 24th Place, Tulsa, OK 74114), where people learn gardening!

Don't know the names of these flowers




Nice settings




I knew summer would not be the right time to see roses. They look horribly dying! This was only 1 of the few that looked okay to me.


The rest looked like these. The temperature is just too hot for them! I would think they would be lovely in the Spring time.


I like this landscape, near the rose garden (2435 South Peoria Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74114)

Tulsa Air and Space Museum

Saturday, 23 July 2011

Mike had mentioned about us visiting the TASM (3624 North 74th East Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74115). I wasn't interested. He didn't like going alone. But lately I was thinking that was selfish of me. He loves planes and flying. So we went today. It turned out to be interesting for me afterall! I guess I just need a little push!

As regards to savings, we found online, a coupon $2 off admission for up to 4 persons! So I got $2 off my $12 ticket and Mike got $2 of his $10 ticket (senior fee). So instead of paying a total of $22, we paid $18 instead. We are happy with whatever savings we can get!



Space Shuttle


Rockwell Ranger 2000


Navy HTL-7 Bell Helicopter


F-14A "Tomcat" Fighter Jet


Flying squadron units' badges


T-37 Simulator - Mike said the controls were not working.


Viper F-16


Aircraft engine



Spartan NP-1


Antique gasoline pump


James E. Bertelsmeyer Planetarium - our last stop for the show, which was included with admission. For a 2nd show, we have to pay $5.

Philbrook Museum of Arts

Saturday, 9 July 2011

This was the 2nd Saturday of the month and it was free admission (funding of Oklahoma Arts Council)! Mike & I are not that crazy interested in arts and paintings, so we didn't want to spend $13 just to visit the Philbrook museum (2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, OK 74114) on other days. I was attracted by the pictures of the gardens and I wanted to see them. Mike care neither for the art nor the gardens but he took me there to make me happy. Thank you, Mike, I appreciate that.

My own shot of the museum from the garden. For a professional shot click on this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philbrook_Museum_of_Art



Taken from the museum, looking down to the gardens


If this was my garden, I would love to sit on a mat below the shady tree, read or sleep. It was a sunny day and there was a breeze from time to time.


National flower of Malaysia! Size-wise, this was bigger.


I think these are Zinnias.


Interesting artwork. No signboard. Someone said that it was a hippopotumus


Can't make out what the sculptured animals were.


The signboard read "Thinker on a Rock"


Don't understand art to understand why it was called "Talisman".


The beautiful koi!


On the whole, I enjoyed this visit, especially the gardens. I had my exercise walking in the 23 acres of gardens. There were paintings in the museum that looked to me like the work of children playing with their brushes, but there were also paintings that I considered as real paintings like the Shepherdess.