It's a picture a day.

Another tiled entryway.



Tiffin is full of bricks, ( Read more... )

Snowed again last night, i don't know what happened, until three weeks ago we were having a mild winter. Now it's a different game. Yesterday was messy with temps close to thirty and lots of wet snow. I got out of work at 3:30 AM and it was colder (20') and had snowed several more inches. I got up at 7 AM to clear the drive so #1daughter&son can get out the drive - 'harry has left an hour earlier but her vehicle can get through it - but by now the temperature has dropped to 3'! So I saw a sunrise for the first time in a long time, i didn't evaporate or anything; it was nice.

But the pictures i wanted to show ( are here: )

In Cuyahoga Valley National Park:



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outside, 4:30 PM. November, 30.

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Now this was an interesting situation, my sympathy lay with the toad but saw no way to do anything about it. I couldn't see how the snake could accomplish his meal because the toad is seemingly to big to swallow. I came out later and the toad was gone, the snake was still there and he was fatter but it did not look to me like it had a whole toad in him

Yesterday after I took the snow pictures, I drove on through the park toward home. Rounding a bend I saw a pool of green in the snow, a couple hundred feet off the road. I pulled off at the nearest place I could find and walked 1000 feet back to the spot. An old part of the river channel still filled with spring flooding already had a pale green skim of slime that shown against the surrounding snow. The upright branches poking through the water were also covered with snow. I aimed my shot and it turned out that the battery of my take everywhere camera died on the last shots I took ten minuets before. ( Read more... )

thanks for the kind comments about the yardstick collection. Here are photos of what is displayed:



These are in the mudroom, sort of outside, sort of inside the house.



Inside, 'harry has not minded me putting this group in the living room. I have around 60 more bundled in the closet; even I can see that, that is enough wall space to use for this purpose. If we had a livable basement instead of a cellar, I might have gone 'man-cave' and put them all up there.

Anyway, each of yardstick has two stories; first the business that gave them out and then the person who took it home and used it, sometimes for decades. I usually put the worst side out, showing marks made while measuring, paint spots, sometimes a note or phone number. If I went on ebay I could get them from all over the country, but another part of the collection is that it specializes in mostly my county and home, where I grew up.

I drove my mother through the park Sunday afternoon, the light was already fading but it was still pretty spectacular. I went back Monday, the sun was coming in and out but, again the colors..So i had to take a few more pictures.



i like this one; it has lift.

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Adams St. Cemetery, Berea, Ohio.



Coe Lake, Berea, Ohio.

Some of the older siding on the almost-a-barn is crumbling so i'm putting some patches on it. I hate to cover the texture of the old wood so i took more pictures, i know I've done this before. What draws us to old faded blue jeans and tumbled down barns?


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