A Wedding, and a White Buffalo

The happy wedded couple departs the scene with the minister looking on.

One of my hobbies is photography. I love to take pictures of things, so several years ago, when I was still working, I bought a really good camera. This camera is better at taking pictures than I am, still not sure how to make all the correct settings. Some of my friends asked me to shoot their wedding, and I agreed. It was quite an experience, timing is everything. That will be the last wedding I do, too stressful. Pictures are slices of frozen life. We can look at a picture and nothing changes or ages. When I look at pictures made of me growing up by my parents, it is with disbelief that I could have been that thin. I spread out a little over the years.

But with this wedding came an unexpected surprise. A rehearsal dinner was held at the Perryman Ranch in Jenks, Oklahoma. The original Perryman house, built in the 1800’s, was full of antique furniture and lamps from that era, it had a wood burning stove for cooking and another one for heating, the big surprise, however, was seeing a white buffalo. Next to the house was a barbed wire fenced-in area with some cattle, and this while buffalo. Knowing the white buffalo is sacred to Native Americans I approached it with a mystic feeling. It just grunted at me and moved further on down the fence. I thought I might pet its head, but it didn’t want to cooperate.

On the Perryman Ranch in Oklahoma.

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