February 2012
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WatchFinally…winter.
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January 2012
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My homies.
My homies at COSI, January 2012
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Strike?
David hoping for a strike at Lex Lanes.
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Take me to The Arcade
I had a chance to visit Cleveland this past weekend for the Frozen Diamond Faceoff, an outdoor Ohio State/Michigan hockey game. The Buckeyes got owned, but it didn’t stop a great weekend from being had.
Mike, James, and I took a short walk around a Cleveland marvel of architecture called The Arcade. It currently is owned and operated by Hyatt, and is the home of the first Hyatt Regency....
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All nestled in...
The great tree of Christmas 2011 has finally had to go. The lights have gone dark. The ornaments have been unhung. The star sits atop no more.
:-)
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
December 2011
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Truffula Trees
These lovely trees along the coast line of Dunedin, Florida remind me of the Truffula Trees in the famous Dr. Seuss book The Lorax. It’s mostly in their physical appearance, less so their symbolic nature of the state of the earth and how we choose to inhabit it. On that note, I do whole heartily recommend the book if you need a good kick in the pants to help you “do the right...
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Nativity.
One of the villages finer displays. On 3rd, just south of St. Marys.
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Smelling the roses.
Taken with an iPhone and Camera+…and apparently on a bit of a slant.
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It's just not winter here...
It’s just not winter here in Clearwater Beach… 81 and humid, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel nice.
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Before I leave...
My desk at home always has a hodge podge of things on it…even more so when I am planning for a trip. Camera, Knidle, computer, phone…everything gets a little space.
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Morning in the park
We had a nice bit of fog and frost in Schiller Park this morning…
November 2011
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King's Mansion
In Mansfield we have a great 47 acre estate-turned-garden called Kingwood Center. After Thanksgiving, the family decided to visit and see what might be out for the upcoming holiday display. We were a bit late in the day do see the indoor bits, but we did take a nice stroll around the grounds.
Kingwood Center was built in 1926 for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelley King and opened to the public...
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Thanksgiving dinner.
Most of the family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner, only missing the German contingent. They’ll be here before we know it…
Friedrich von Schiller
Friedrich von Schiller, German poet.
“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life.”
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Horse face.
A horse tie down on City Park Avenue, just across from Schiller Park. You will see quite a few of these around my neighborhood, for it being 2011 anyway. We also have a few, what I think are, stone troughs.
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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin...
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin, circa 2011
This is at Lynd’s Fruit Farm, while on our (now) annual pumpkin picking trip.
The take was large this year…
October 2011
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The Bats.
The best ideas are so simple… These are a few snaps of a few of the paper bats we had set up as decoration for our Halloween party. I take no credit, this was wholly executed by “The Jens”. The idea was borrowed from Pinterest.com and executed beautifully.
This last one is for my computer desktop image…
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Ow! My eye!
The two Jens prepped some eyeballs for our halloween party… scary delicious!
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Oh the horror...
At the Circleville Pumpkin Show show last weekend, I came across something I can add to the list of “Things I never want to see again”. On the main path through town, there is a tower of pumpkins, the show winners, and a few purveyors selling their pumpkiny goods. It looks a little like this…
As Miss Davis and I pushed and pulled ourselves through the crowd, I had the eery...
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The Rides.
A couple of rides at the Circleville Pumpkin Show in quaint little Circleville, Ohio.
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Breaking bread.
Breaking bread with the ducks in Schiller Park.
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Leaf hunting.
Miss Davis and I went leaf hunting yesterday in Schiller Park. I blame this little attempt at creativity on pinterest.com and our pending attempt at a Halloween party. We found a couple of promising specimens, and will surely head back to our 23.5 acre neighborhood jewel to find a few more…
I’m hoping the crimson top of this little guy will yield some nice results…
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Patience.
At Otto in New York, instead of taking your name for your table, they give you a slip with a city name on it. When your “destination” rolls up on the train-station style board, you are up.
We drew Torre Del Greco and waited about an hour and a half. Batali strikes again, well worth the wait.
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5th.
5th.
If you look closely (and use your imagination), you can see the main set of headlights is a MTA bus and there is a taxi parked off to the right.
This is 5th Avenue and 28th street in New York City at around 1 am on a Thursday morning. Intentionally blurry as I intended on using it as the background picture for my computer.
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Empire State.
Last week I made a work trip to the city so nice, they named it twice. I always have such grand plans for my camera when I go on these trips, but silly work always seems to get in the way.
I did go out for a walk late one night, tripod and all…
I feel a few more work trips in my future…hopefully I’ll do better next time.
September 2011
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Mmmm, Beer.
This week Jen, Steve, and I spent a couple of hours at the Columbus Microbrew Festival. The festival was another fine event held at the North Market. All of the local breweries were there, from the bigger Elevator Brewing Company, to the new kid on the block, Neil House Brewery.
Jen enjoyed some fruity beers: the Raspberry Wheat at Barley’s, the Cranberry Cider at Neil House, and...
August 2011
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The Best Ranch...
The best ranch is always at the bottom…
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James, with a hard G.
A couple of pics of James from our recent trip to Pure Michigan to visit the Dill-Wigton clan…
I like carrots.
James doing his best Arnold impression.
The rest of the beach... →
The rest of the Beach pictures can be found on Facebook…it’ a public share, so you shouldn’t need an account to troll through them.
If you don’t have an account…try not to feel to dirty for being “on Facebook”.
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Why they call it Sunset Beach...
Most of my recent posts have all been from Sunset Beach, North Carolina where my family vacations every year. I thought I’d post a few pictures of the area, just in case you were wondering how it got it’s name.
This one looks much better when bigger and on black.
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Hide and seek...
Adults are boring…at least usually and in the photographic sense. If you follow an almost-three-year-old around long enough, they’ll do something funny, cute or at least worth of taking a picture. This is especially true if you’re an annoying uncle with a camera and it’s all they can do to just run and hide…
These are a few of Lucy playing...
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Getting schooled.
The slow trickle of beach photos continues… One of the great things about beach vacations is the endless number of activities the water in and around the ocean offer. We swim, boat, tube, skimboard and dabble in several types of fishing. All of the fishing we do is off the dock on the back of the house, in the fertile waters of the marshes adjacent to the intracoastal waterway. Up until...
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Fly Protection.
How to protect your wine from certain fly invasion…
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Cornhole.
A few years ago Rick, Rick, Rick made a set of sweet Cornhole boards. This year we played more than most, but it still didn’t seem like very much (or enough). Stallion, Ricker, Dad and I played a few rounds… “Rick the Ringer” was able to pull his team to overall victory, but David and I put up a good fight.
“I’ll bet you are wondering if this went...
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Look deep into her eyes...
On our way down to Sunset Beach a few weeks ago, Jen and I stopped at Johnson’s Peaches. Johnson’s, for the un-initiated, is a disturbingly busy little peach stand along route 220 in Rockingham, North Carolina. We stopped for some “red” peaches at the insistence of my mother, a botanical mistake which lead to a story I’d rather not tell.
Pops recommended the ice...
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On the dock...
On the dock, we hold Grammy’s hand…
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Uno!
We had some rain at the beach this year…3 days of it. On the second day, we decided to break out the cards and start a few games of UNO. I think it was Brian’s idea to play, but by the time I took these pictures, he had long bored of us and moved on to something else. I’m happy to report that two Jennifer’s and two Stolfis successfully played several rounds of a card game...