Black Mesa country, OK

Black Mesa on sunny day	road into Black Mesa State Park, Oklahoma	sunset in the mesa country	Black Mesa on snowy day
Star from Black Mesa Bed & Breakfast	my youngest at the top of Black Mesa	Black Mesa country	1881 CO-NM-OK lat-long marker
Black Mesa State Park	Common Nighthawk	Western Screech Owl	Cassin's Kingbird
longitude face CO-NM-OK marker	Western Bluebird--male	Mountain Bluebird	Woodhouse's Scrub Jay
Kenton, Oklahoma	Black Mesa, Oklahoma	tones on a mesa near sunset	road to Kenton, OK
Mesa country, northeast New Mexico	Wedding Cake formation	Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus)	Common Wood Nymph (Cercyonis pegala)
Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia)	Yucca Giant-Skipper (Megathymus yuccae)	Chihuahuan Desert Spadefoot (Spea multiplicata)	Western Chihuahuan Green Toad (Anaxyrus debilis insidior)
Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)	Plains Gartersnake (Thamnophis radix)	Plains Gartersnake (Thamnophis radix)	Bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer sayi)
Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)	[Oklahoma Brown] Tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)	Band-winged Meadowhawk (Sympetrum semicinctum)	Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella)
Common Raven	Shortgrass plains in the mesa country	High Plains carpet of Coreopsis	High Plains carpet of Coreopsis
Pronghorn (Antilocarpa americana)	Pronghorn (Antilocarpa americana)	Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)	Rock Squirrel (Otospermophilus variegatus)
sunset from near Kenton, Oklahoma