Willows

Doesn't it look like someone gave these willow trees a haircut?  How can the willow fronds all be the same height above the water level?

Golden woods

Mixed media:  cardboard, string, foil, acrylic paint

Late summer in Hoover Park

Fungus


Hops


Jewelweed (Touch me nots)


Evening primrose


Bindweed


Russian olive?


A path for Hobbits!

Worms of a Different Color

by JMB
Sharpie and colored pencil

Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire, England

Cawood Castle by JMB
Pen, ink, and wash

Magnolia in the Mist

Periwinkle

Daffodils, crocuses and robins

The Daffodils are up, the Crocuses are in Bloom, and the Robins are Here!

Saturday Morning in Holmes, County

Saturday we drove to Amish Country to buy cheese and some bulk foods.


We stopped at Heini's Cheese Chalet in Bunker Hill.


Heini's makes over 150 different types of cheese, including Moon Cheese, though we bought several types of their delicious yogurt cheese.


You can see the large vats where they produce their cheeses.


Amish farmers bring their milk to Heini's place in these milk cans.


There were a lot of horses and buggies out this morning, despite the weather.











We passed by a small Amish school south of Mt. Hope.

January Sunrise

At Rosepoint Cottage, Chardon, Ohio

sent via mobile by Judy

Furnace Run Metropark, Oak Trail

Today, I hiked the Oak Trail at Furnace Run.   It was also our first dusting of snow for the year.  The teasel trees along the interstate were lovely...like little puffs of cotton.  I wish I could have gotten a photo of them.


Brushwood Pavillion


Trailhead


Furnace Run


Lots of firewood has been cut and stacked along the Oak Trail


Christmas Ferns


Moss in the snow


Memorial to Charles Brush: To all those who love as he loved, the far sky and smiling land.



And one shot of a red-berried tree at Seiberling Nature Realm, where I picked up my 2011 shield for my hiking stick, on completion of the Fall Hiking Spree Challenge.

Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve, Mentor, Ohio

Fairport Harbor Light across the dunes on Lake Erie at Headlands Beach

Elaine shot this interesting angle on some driftwood

Driftwood on Headlands Beach, Lake Erie


Late fall at Headland Dunes, Lake Erie, Mentor, Ohio