The Mount Pleasant photography club has an art exhibit at the Fairfield county Public Library that will be opening this weekend. Back in March I took some pictures getting ready for it. The theme is a little different for me. The show, “Build A Better World,” which has been broadly…
On March 8th of this year I took a trip down to the Hocking Hills. We had recently had some good rains, so I went with the idea that I would try to take pictures of some of the waterfalls from different angles than I had on previous trips. I…
This is from a hike on April 18th at Camp Oty’Okwa in the Hocking Hills.
Out of order once again. This is today’s hike at Wahkeena Nature Preserve just south of Lancaster, OH. If you haven’t made it out into the woods this spring this may be the week to do it. It is a very good year for most wildflowers, but most of them…
In early March the PreservArt Ohio group went looking for Skunk Cabbage. First stop was Rhododendron cove. We found one small plant that was in pretty bad shape, but we did find a few other flowers. It was on to Christmas Rocks. We found the Skunk Cabbage growing along the…
While going through things in my Dad’s basement back in February we ran across my Grandfathers old fishing box. It included several old fishing reels and lures and an old fishing license from his home in Scranton Pennsylvania. Al and Jennie later moved to Toms River New Jersey where we…
This weekend I had training at Camp Oty’Okwa. It was a fun weekend with a great bunch of people wanting to learn how to share nature with children. The camp is beautiful. While most of the camp is private property, parts of it are available for public use if you want…
I have been taking pictures, I just haven’t been getting them posted like I should. Today I went out for an evening hike with Julia (my PreservArt Ohio partner) to see what, if anything, was blooming. We found several species, so I wanted to share this one(out of order) so…
We have had a strange winter in Ohio this year. Our last significant snowfall was back in December, and February felt more like spring than winter. In late February and early March it is pretty normal to see a few species blooming. My Hellebores were right on schedule, but we…
On February 11th I had the opportunity to go to a photo shoot with The Central Ohio Photography Group. They had arranged a photo shoot at The Ohio Wildlife Center. They are a wild animal rehabilitation center located just north of Columbus in Powell , Ohio. You can learn more…
