A quick drive today from Bartlesville, OK to Sedan, KS could have meant driving our usual route of Hwy 75 to Caney and over to Sedan. Not a bad drive...but one we make a couple of times a week. Today was one of those just pretty days and when the intersection with Hwy 75 and Hwy 10 came up...the pick up truck just almost turned west on Hwy 10 on its own.
Its a fun road--better driven in the Jeep but the pick up had to do for today. First you go over the Copan Lake Dam (which is high because of recent storms). Then curves and up and down the hills and into the valleys. A motorcyclist's dream road. Everything is so green and wild flowers are in every ditch and gully. The fields are yellow with mustard. Another curve and across Hulah Dam!
And then there are the horses! Many of the large ranches here in Oklahoma are home to the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse program. There's controversy about this program--but there are no words to describe the beauty of a wild horse herd. To see them running and drinking from the ponds is truly breathtaking.
But the best is the sound. Stop the truck. Get out and listen. You can hear the wind...the caw of a crow...and the horses--soft blowing of their breath, a whinny...thank you, Lord, for the horses and for those that keep them and care for them.
