After The Rains

The rain finally quit falling today in Ohio. The sun actually managed to peek through a little bit, too, for about 5 minutes at a time. I hadn't seen it since last Sunday, which is a long time for a Florida boy to do without sunshine. Anyway, after all that rain, I was curious to see what the effect was on the stream flow down at Brandywine Falls, and I was not disappointed. Compare the picture above to this shot from last Saturday. There wasn't enough light for me to get a really great shot, but you get the idea, I suspect. You can also see that more of the trees have turned beautiful colors in the past week. I'm going out tomorrow for a full day of leaf peeping. Wish me luck!

What's that? You want to see the actual falls? How's this? :)

All The Little Chicks With The Crimson Lips

Yes, I did make it into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. But they wouldn't put my signature up on the wall until I paid the $25,000 fee. They're going to be waiting a long, long time for that.

You can't take pictures inside the hall itself, so those of you waiting for those pictures will be disappointed. It's a great collection of memorabilia inside, but having been to half a dozen Hard Rock Cafes, the Elvis museum in Vegas, and various other collections of cool pop culture memorabilia, it wasn't all that and a bag of chips. Still, if you're in Cleveland, and you can't stand the thought of talk radio, check it out!

Attack Of The 50-Foot Guitar

This giant neon guitar looms high over the parking garage at Terminal Tower Center here in Cleveland. I'm on my way to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame tonight, so I hope to see many more guitars, although I expect they'll be somewhat smaller.

Come On Ride The Train

It was rainy and windy all day in Ohio, although it was slightly warmer. I didn't get out to take any pictures, so you get a picture from last Saturday. The picture above shows the tourist train that runs through the Cuyahoga Valley on the weekends when the weather is nice. I'd never actually seen it before, but I knew it was coming based on the number of photographers that were waiting for it's arrival. That's the Route 82 bridge in the background. I've thought about riding the train the whole length of the valley, but you are pretty limited in what you see, and I much prefer to stop when I see something interesting.

Over The River Through The Woods

Wherever you look around here, there's something to see. I caught this bridge over a small creek down in the Cuyahoga Valley on Saturday. This is the same creek that flows under the covered bridge I've shared with you before, but it's maybe a mile downstream. I tried to walk down the stream, actually, from one to the other, but I couldn't.

I guess whatever is wrong with Hello is back again. The picture above is all there (after the second try), but the full sized picture is truncated at the bottom. Maybe I should start hosting pictures through Flickr or something...

Land Of The Rising Sun

Here's the sunrise from this morning in Twinsburg, Ohio. I just can't get away from these power lines...

October, Week Three, Live From Ohio

What are the chances that Blogger and Hello will let me post a whole picture today? Let's see. This week's calendar shot is quite fortuitous, since I'm in Ohio, and it's a shot from Ohio. This is the stream crossing at the bottom end of Brandywine Gorge, so I guess that's Brandywine Creek flowing through the stepping stones. I was in this exact spot Saturday, and I noticed one of the rocks was out of place, so you have to make a pretty big jump to get from one rock to the next. Thankfully the water wasn't too high.

Wow! The picture is all there! Who'd a thunk it? Maybe I'll get ambitious tonight and post more views from Ohio if it's going to work with me instead of against me...

Cleveland Rolls

Cleveland may rock, but not in the fall on a Sunday night. I took this shot from The Flats tonight, and I was the only person around. I was a little nervous because of that, in fact. But I got a pretty picture.

I got Blogger and Hello to post the tiny version of this picture OK, but I think it cut off the dark bottom on the larger version you get when you click to enlarge. Sorry about that. Hopefully this is a bug they'll work out soon.

Testing 1, 2, 3, 4

Well, let's see if Blogger can get it's act together and post a full picture this morning. This shot is one of my favorite spots in the Cuyahoga Valley, Brandywine Falls. The falls actually start right at the edge of that rock you see, and they fall almost 100 feet to the bottom of the gorge below.

Nope, I still don't get a full picture when I post. You have to click on the picture to see the whole thing. Sorry about that...

Golden Lumbers

Well, here I am in Ohio. I spent the day trying to find some color, and boy did I find some. Not all of the trees are turning colors, but plenty of them are. I don't know what species this is, but it sure in attractive. It remings me of some of the flowering trees you see in Florida.

Oh, great. Here we go again with Blogger and Hello screwing up my posted picture. I don't have time to mess with this tonight. I was hiking all day and I'm tired. Click on the half picture above, and I believe it will take you to a larger and complete picture. Goodnight!

The Sun Also Sets

Earlier today I brought you sunrise in Florida, so here is sunset in Ohio. Sorry I couldn't get a better shot of it. I was in the van on the way to the hotel, and there was no good place to stop and get a nice shot. But it was a pretty nice sunset...for Ohio.

Self Portrait

This is a shot of me on the way to the airport today. Nice blue skies, top down, driving across the Sunshine Skyway. It was 87 when I left. It was 50 when I got to Ohio.

1K

Just for the record, this was the sunrise this morning. I'm off to Ohio this afternoon, where it's in the 20's this morning. It was almost 70 here when I took this picture 10 minutes ago. Also for the record, this is the 1000th post to my little blog here, and this is picture number 61,105 out of my RebelXT. Nobody can say I don't get my money's worth out of a camera.

Setting Sun

OK, I'm down to only one day from my trip to Ohio. It's in the forties up there now, and it's likely to snow tonight. I'm sure it's not going to stick, but still, snow! This shot is from my visit in January, when there was snow for a grand total of one day. This is the sunset from atop the Virginia Kendall Ledges, which you can't see in this shot, but they are pretty awesome. Trust me...

Bird Power

I caught this red-shouldered hawk on a power pole behind my shop this morning. He was just sitting there making hawk noises for a while. I waited for him to take off in hopes of getting a shot in flight, but he waited until I was looking down making an adjustment on my camera before taking off and gliding over the nearby lake. Figures...

Is This What I Have To Look Forward To?

Well, the weather forecast for Ohio is looking a little better, but it's still going to be cold, cold COLD! This shot was me cavorting in the snow the last time I was in Ohio. I was there for a week in January, and this was the only real snow I saw the whole time. It lasted less than a day...

Oodles Of Doodles CCV

It's been a while, but I haven't forgotten those if you who love the doodles. These dancing guypies are from, where else, Gypsy Sandor And His Orchestra-Play, Gypsy, Play (RCA Victor LPM-1739, 1958). The name looks to me like Mezelle Thompson, which doesn't seem to return much. Why is Hello chopping off my pictures? Is anyone else having this problem? I'm sure by the time most of you see this post, I'll have it fixed, but right now the lower third of my picture above is missing. When I posted the bee shot earlier, I had to try like 5 times before I got it up. What a pain...

OK, I've tried four times now and I can't get the picture to post properly. I'll try again later. Perhaps something is screwy out in Cali. There, I finally got the entire doodle to display. It only took seven or eight tries. I think I'm going to bed...

Wait, it still doesn't post the whole picture when you click on the smaller version. This is going to have to get fixed tomorrow.

Bee My Neighbor

Two ladies were on the sidewalk this afternoon as I parked my car. One of them warned the other not to go near the tree at the end of the street, as it was covered in bees. Being the adventurer that I am, I pulled out the camera and headed that direction. Sure enough, some bees were swarming on a branch, but it was only a few thousand, nothing to be scared of. So I walked right in and stuck my lens into their business. And, no, I didn't get stung, or even buzzed. These guys were too busy trying to keep the queen cool in the middle of this mayhem.

Not In Ohio

Don't forget, I'm on my way to Ohio here at the end of the week, and I'm looking for some color. The sea grape above is about all the color we get here in Florida on the coast, and it didn't turn this way until January!

The Second Week Of October

Here's your picture of the week for this, the second week of October. These beautiful pink flowers are on a silk floss tree, and by a strange coincidence, I drove past this tree last week and it's in bloom right now. The tree is located in a cemetary south of Bradenton, Florida. But don't let that creep you out, it just happened to be the only tree of it's type that I could find that wasn't on private property. These trees get to be 50 or 60 feet high, and they are quite the sight when covered in pink flowers. They also have stubby spikes on the side of the trunk to discourage tree-climbing youngsters, I suppose.