More photos from my Color Me Autumn Collection I was wishing I had dressed for winter when I decided to take a trail walk in Chagrin River Park yesterday, but despite the drop in temperature, it still felt good to get out on the trail. For the first time in weeks, I snapped some pictures of …
Can you believe…
This sugar maple tree at Holden Arboretum is one of my favorite trees. Can you believe how quickly it has changed over the past few weeks? Here is what it looked like last October. If the weather cooperates, I will head out to the Arboretum this weekend and take a picture exactly one year after the one above. Why …
Autumn…Rain muted
A day truly does make a difference. Here in northeast Ohio we have been blessed with a succession of delightful days that drew this nature-loving photographer outdoors to walk the trails, ignoring anything indoors that may be calling for my attention. Dusting, vacuuming, reading, and more have received scant attention during these glorious autumn days as I answered the clarion …
Covered bridge tour (part two)
A Color Me Autumn blog post From my point of view, little could be better on a gorgeous Fall day than a tour of Ashtabula County, highlighting several iconic covered bridges. In my previous post, I mentioned the tour I took this week with my friend Lorna who lives in this far northeastern Ohio county, bordered on the east by Pennsylvania and …
Covered bridges and Autumn colors
More from my "Color Me Autumn" collection Today was a special day...the day my friend Lorna and I had highlighted on our calendars as the day we would visit covered bridges in Ashtabula County, and the weather couldn't have been better! Starting early, I met Lorna for breakfast in Geneva, Ohio, and from there we hip-hopped around northern …
Saturday’s miscellaneous moments
For the past few months I have been hard at work organizing the 50,000+ photos I have accumulated on my computer's hard drives. I have categorized, keyworded, labeled, and even deleted photos in my effort to gain control over what had become a massive mess. For some photographers, 50 thousand photos wouldn't make a dent …
A day at the beach
My destination for today's trail walk was Headlands State Nature Preserve, a unique combination of beach, dunes, and water, with a lighthouse thrown in as a bonus. I hadn't visited Headlands for the better part of a year (that's an estimate). As this was a beautiful fall day, with plenty of sunshine and blue skies, …
Autumn in the Arboretum
"Color Me Autumn" Autumn is my favorite season and October is my favorite month. Throughout this season, most of my blog posts, as well as my daily posts in my Blipfoto journal, will focus on variations of "Color Me Autumn." When I visit the Arboretum, I almost always pass by the Golden Willow next to Lotus …
Color me Autumn
Sitting in front of my computer screen looking at photos of fall scenes posted on several other blogs propelled me out of my chair and out on the trail with my camera. The weather couldn't have been better for a walk in the park, so here are a few pictures from my very short walk. …
CROP walk
Fighting hunger one step at a time! Every year in October our church participates in the annual CROP WALK, sponsored by Church World Service. People of all ages invite their friends and neighbors to sponsor them for the walk and the money collected is distributed where it is needed to fight hunger in our local …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 