250: Scenes from a bike ride
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Bicycle Adventures, Earth, family, Fun!, garden, gardening, goals, Healthful Living Plan, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, weather | Tags: Akron, Bicycle, cycling, ducks, geese, Lake Erie, Little Miami Scenic Trail, Ohio and Erie Canal, Photography, postaday2011, Towpath 34 Comments
Ready, set...
The city of Akron was co-founded in 1825 (so it is younger than the township in which I live) by Paul Williams and surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins. It was interesting to learn this because the street where we met M the Younger and his wife, Merdi, is named after Paul Williams and we have often wondered if it was named after the composer/songwriter (we were obviously unsure of any possible local link, not knowing much about him) or someone else. History mystery solved.
The really important thing you need to know about Akron, for the purposes of this bike ride, is that the name is derived from the Greek word ἄκρον which means a summit or high point.
249: Memorial Day
Posted: May 30, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, Fire, garden, gardening, holidays, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: ABC World News, Flag, flowers, Hawkweed, History, Hometown History, Memorial Day, Ohio, Photography, Picnik, pond, postaday2011, trees 20 Comments
Blowin' in the wind
In northeast Ohio, in between the cities of Canton, Akron, and Cleveland, and surrounding some of the bigger villages that are not big enough to be cities and so they are called villages in Ohio, you will find small rural townships in which the “downtown” is really nothing more than a crossroads. On the corners at the crossroads, if the town is big enough, you might find a church on one corner, a firehouse on another, a bank on still another, and maybe a restaurant (or a competing church) on the last corner. Often there is a traffic light and if you get a green and speed on through, you might not even realize you’ve passed through the center of a town. I hesitate to call it “the center of a town” as it really isn’t a town or a center at all. Just a crossroads.
248: First boat ride of the season
Posted: May 29, 2011 Filed under: 1200 in 2010, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Critters, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, water, weather | Tags: Frog, pedal boat, Photography, pond, postaday2011, Snapping Turtle, turtle, water 41 Comments
Relaxing on the pedal boat
I took my first pedal boat ride of the season yesterday afternoon. I pedaled around the pond a few times, took a few photos, then I put my feet up and drifted for a while, enjoying the sunshine and the breeze.
247: Water on sunnier days
Posted: May 28, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Summer, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Alluvial Fan, Colorado, Colorado Springs, David Mead, Fulton J. Sheen, Photography, postaday2011, Rocky Mountain National Park, water, Waterfalls, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 27 Comments
(At the Alluvial Fan in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. August 2010.)
I’m dipping into some water shots I took while we were in Colorado last summer, just for the fun of it. And because the weekend is getting busy and it’s easier to bring up old photos than to upload, re-size, and post new stuff.
246: Saturated
Posted: May 27, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Feng Shui, Photography, pond, postaday2011, rain, Religion and Spirituality, Ted Andrews, water, WP Weekly Photo Challenge 27 Comments
Last one to the swim platform is a rotten egg
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is: Water. It is not much of a challenge for me. In fact, it is so easy that I was tempted to complicate it. Because that’s how my mind works at times. Take something simple, add a dash of this and a pinch of that, and the next thing you know, I have a huge project on my hands.
245: Stormy weather
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Green, Photography, pond, postaday2011, storms, Wassily Kandinsky, water, weather 35 Comments
Stormy weather. Taken yesterday evening when the first round of storms rolled in.
We had some wicked storms move through last night. Fortunately for us, the energy seemed to have fizzled out a little before they got here. Places west and north of us experienced 70mph winds, and at least one tornado. We did have some pretty spectacular lightning. Someday I should learn how to photograph it.
244: Beginning to feel like summer
Posted: May 25, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather | Tags: flowers, Indra Devi, Photography, pond, postaday2011, water, water iris 24 Comments
One of my favorite photographic subjects is back in the water. The rowboat often seems to have a personality, especially as it somehow slips free and floats around the pond on its own.
Life in the Bogs 