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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Prisma

Found a cool new app for my iphone that renders an ordinary photo into a artwork. I've gone a little crazy with it and have imagined endless possibilities for my photos including illustrations for the children's book I am working on and for coloring book pages.

Photos as illustrations

Coloring book pages

Pop Art!

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Prairies in Full Bloom

A couple of my prairie photos were used for this Metro Parks article.

The Central Ohio prairies are spectacular. Andrew did a good bit of the restoration work on most of them in the parks.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Field Outing

Took the family to Battelle Darby Metro Park today to see the work Andrew has done in the past 15 + years in restoring former farm fields to native prairie. The prairie was in peak and full bloom and we had an enjoyable day visiting the nature center and going to dinner at Ann and Tony's Italian Restaurant followed by a trip to Rita's Ice when we got back in town.

Common milkweed

Queen Anne's Lace

Purple Coneflower, Gray-headed Coneflower

James with a "flight" of ice from Rita's Italian ice.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Andrew TV segment on Dragonflies

Every now and then WBNS 10TV calls Andrew to go on an outing. A couple weeks ago they went to Darby Creek to investigate and learn about dragonflies.

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Harbor Winds

Woke up this morning to perfect weather and packed up our gear and the pups and headed to Lake Erie to see visit our good friends Robin and Tracy at their lakeside weekend getaway. Had a wonderful time relaxing in the sunshine on their newly restored (by them) 1981 Marinette. It was a little too windy to go out on the lake fishing which was fine by us; but the guys did spend some time fishing off the docks and they caught a couple bass. We spent the day around their place and eventually decided to venture out to the Dairy Dock a few miles down the road to get some ice cream and visit the Marblehead Lighthouse. I've been to that lighthouse so many times I can't recall the exact number and I never get tired of standing on the Lake Erie shore and taking in the sight of it. Nolan and Lacy made a new friend in Emmett the yellow lab and they were pooped pups by the time we went home. We had a fabulous dinner of grilled pork and zucchini and spent the rest of the evening putzing around and sitting out on the boat. A wonderful day spent with friends was capped off by a stunning sunset on the way home.

On the Marinette

Representing for My Dog Nose It sunscreen

Can we keep that?

Enjoying some icecream

At the Marblehead Lighthouse

Emmett and Nolan smell pork chops

Emmett and Nolan aren't getting any pork chops...

Tracy and Robin posing in front of their home away from home.

The kids with Aunt Robin.

Tracy and his buddy...

The road home...

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Waiting...

...for the storm to pass. Out for our nightly walk and got a little surprise. Big fat rain drops.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Baby Catfish?

Baby catfish? Nope, it's a stonecat madtom that was captured by Andrew and me and released during a biotic survey at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Catfish get much larger, but the maximum length of a stonecat is 6-in.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Go Outside and Play

Beautiful day! Love summer.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Yard and Garden Views

Love this view in the yard. Repurposed green door with dragonfly... Lots of stuff blooming. Dogs loving life.

Friday, June 17, 2016

Fridays Off

Yay I have Friday's off during the summer. Spend the morning at Darby walking the trail and looking at the work Andrew has been doing over the past couple years in the park. Prairie flowers were starting to bloom and it was a nice morning.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Aquatics Program

Very passionate about his work and sharing his knowledge today with a group of park employees including the Director-Andrew at Darby Creek teaching aquatics.