These Virginia Bluebells were right outside the Appalachian Forest Museum and Visitors Center at the Highlands Nature Sanctuary in Highland County, Ohio.

This is a continuation of my wildflower series from last spring that I never got posted. Now I have more from this spring to post!

Shot of Porters in the main square Newark on Trent.

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Memorial Day we visited a veteran of WWII while he recuperates from a bacterial infection. This is the hospital courtyard which was going unused in the rain.

widescreen vs. standard

Just 2 months before they're both Hachikians.

official latke party photographer: Jessie DuVerneay

There's plenty of room in that pizza box for a few more birds!

During the summer of 2008 I traveled 2500km by bicycle through a big part of Spain. The country is magnificent, it's people very friendly and passionate, and eventhough everybody told me I should come back in spring I thought even in summer when temperatures during daytime were ALWAYS above 42 degrees centigrade, it presented me with views I'll never, EVER, forget...

This picture(a combination of 8 pictures taken with my pocketcamera) is taken about 60kms south of Zaragoza...

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Editors at Tempodrom, Berlin (2018)

"I never loved you, Ronald"

Claudette, Chris, Claudia, Bill's head, Jolie

Downtown location

Brick Lane in the rain

Seeing these dramatic cloud formations Friday night was really cool. These last few days have presented many opportunities for cloud photography.

This is the final week for Ohio Foothills group members to enter the upcoming contest - "Puffy Clouds Included".

This photo has plenty of puffy clouds. Since there is so little sky visible, I should almost say, "Sky included," for this shot.

This shot is from my archives.

When I visited Blendon Woods Metropark for the first time in June of 2013, I couldn't go far, as I was exactly two weeks removed from having successful hip arthroscopic surgery.

Since we were near the metropark during the visit to the OSU Carepoint Facility in Gahanna for my two week post-op appointment to have sutures removed, I requested this stop, as I hadn't really been out to do anything. I was on crutches, but moving around well enough to get into the nature center and monarch tent outside to take some photos. This series of shots was taken from inside the "Monarch Mansion".

I need to go back and take the walk to the waterfowl refuge area now that I have a healthy leg/hip. It is definitely on my "must visit" list when I am in that area again.

Here's a bit of text and link from Bob and Deb Platt from their TrekOhio website talking about Blendon Woods ...

It explains the following about the Monarch Mansion: "From June through September there is a screened in gazebo just outside the nature center that’s known as Monarch Mansion. The staff raises monarch caterpillars until they become butterflies. The butterflies live in this mansion until they are released on Monarch Day celebrated annually."

trekohio.com/2013/01/02/blendon-woods-metro-park/

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I've been seeing this flower popping up in a few places, but don't have any current shots of it. However, I found these in my "Ready to Post" folder and decided it was a good time to do it.

I copied the following paragraph from Wikipedia and also included a link for the rest of the article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory

Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or for roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive. It is also grown as a forage crop for livestock. It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become widely naturalized.

Teaching Brennan that being calm increases time on couch.

Just in case you thought the military was in cohoots with big business